Sincere
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English
Adjective
Sincere (comparative more sincere or sincerer, superlative most sincere or sincerest)
- earnest; meaning what one says or does; truthful.
- I believe he is sincere in his offer to help.
- meant truly or earnestly.
- She gave it a sincere, if misguided effort.
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Adverbs for Sincere
unaffectedly; charmingly; graciously; affably; cordially; pleasantly; utterly; delightfully ; ardently; honestly; remarkably; plainly; genuinely; dependably; scrupulously; earnestly; fervently; enthusiastically; punctiliously; particularly; reliably
Thesaurus
abandoned, aboveboard, actual, afire, ardent, artless, authentic, bluff, blunt, bona fide, born yesterday, bound, bound and determined, broad, brusque, burning, candid, card-carrying, childlike, committed, confiding, dear, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, determined, devoted, devout, dinkum, direct, downright, earnest, explicit, faithful, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, following the letter, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, good, guileless, heart-to-heart, heartfelt, hearty, heated, honest, honest-to-God, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, in earnest, inartificial, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, intense, intent, intent on, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loyal, meant, naive, natural, naturalistic, obstinate, on fire, on the level, open, openhearted, original, outspoken, passionate, perfervid, persevering, persistent, plain, plain-spoken, pure, purposeful, real, realistic, red-hot, relentless, resolute, resolved, rightful, round, serious, simon-pure, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, single-hearted, single-minded, spirited, sterling, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sure-enough, tenacious, transparent, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, trustful, trusting, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unchecked, uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling, undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unreserved, unrestrained, unromantic, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unsuspicious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, unwary, vehement, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, warm, white-hot, wholehearted, word-for-word, zealous
Etymology
From Middle French sincère, from Latin sincerus (“genuine”), from Proto-Indo-European *sin- + *ker- (“grow”), from which also Ceres (“goddess of harvest”) from which English cereal.
Unrelated to sine (“without”) cera (“wax”) (folk etymology); see Wikipedia discussion.
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External links
- Sincere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Sincere in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
sincere pl.
- feminine form of sincero
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Latin
Adjective
sincēre
- vocative masculine singular of sincērus
