| 单词 | honest |
| 释义 | honest (once / 75 pages) adj The adjective honest is perfect for describing someone who tells the truth. If you're always honest, it means you're truthful and sincere no matter what. Honest comes from the Latin word honestus, which means "honorable or respected," and around 1300, honest was popularly used to mean "respectable and of neat appearance." We don't use it these days to describe the way someone dresses, but instead how truthful they are, and sometimes to emphasize how simple and straightforward something is, like "good, honest home-cooked food." WORD FAMILYhonest: dishonest, honester, honestest, honestly, honestness+/dishonest: dishonester, dishonestly USAGE EXAMPLESThe important thing is that they are honest with you about it if you ask. Wall Street Journal(Jan 01, 2017) In truth, customers lost only $1.5 million, which, if we’re being honest, is minuscule for a bank the size of Wells Fargo. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “I think we match up really well, to be honest,” Barkley said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj marked by truth gave honest answers honest reporting Syn true, truthful expressing or given to expressing the truth 2adj gained or earned without cheating or stealing an honest wage Syn fair equitable, just fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience 3adj not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent honest lawyers honest reporting Syn|Ant honorable direct straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action echt, genuinenot fake or counterfeit downrightcharacterized by plain blunt honesty honorable, honourableworthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect artless, ingenuouscharacterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious sincereopen and genuine; not deceitful square, straightcharacterized by honesty and fairness trueconsistent with fact or reality; not false trustworthy, trustyworthy of trust or belief dishonest, dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive Janus-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-facedmarked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another beguilingmisleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods deceitful, fallacious, fraudulentintended to deceive deceptive, misleading, shoddydesigned to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently falsedesigned to deceive picaresqueinvolving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction blackguardly, rascally, roguish, scoundrellylacking principles or scruples thieving, thievishgiven to thievery dishonorable, dishonourablelacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor insincerelacking sincerity corrupt, crookednot straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive falsenot in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality untrustworthy, untrustynot worthy of trust or belief 4adj not forged Syn good echt, genuine not fake or counterfeit 5adj without dissimulation; frank my honest opinion Syn sincere open and genuine; not deceitful 6adj without pretensions worked at an honest trade good honest food Syn unpretentious lacking pretension or affectation 7adj worthy of being depended on an honest working stiff Syn dependable, reliable, true trustworthy, trusty worthy of trust or belief |
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