Honest: Definition and part of speech

Honest

  1. a. To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
  2. a. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
  3. a. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; — said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
  4. a. Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
  5. a. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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