honest

Etymology
From, , from , from , from. For the verb, see 🇨🇬, and compare 🇨🇬. Displaced native.

Adjective

 * 1)  Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
 * 2)  True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
 * 3) In good faith; without malice.
 * 4)  Accurate.
 * 5) Authentic; full.
 * 6) Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
 * 7) Open; frank.
 * 8)  Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
 * 9)  Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
 * 1)  Accurate.
 * 2) Authentic; full.
 * 3) Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
 * 4) Open; frank.
 * 5)  Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
 * 6)  Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
 * 1) Open; frank.
 * 2)  Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
 * 3)  Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
 * 1)  Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
 * 1)  Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
 * 1)  Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
 * 1)  Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

Collocations

 * honest man
 * honest woman
 * honest person
 * honest people
 * honest fellow
 * honest answer
 * honest truth
 * honest work
 * honest opinion
 * honest belief
 * honest face
 * honest communication
 * honest feedback
 * honest attempt
 * honest broker
 * honest mistake
 * honest effort

Translations

 * Arabic: نَزِيه,
 * Hijazi Arabic: صادق
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: сумле́нны, праўдзі́вы,
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: matinod-anon
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 誠實, 老實
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: honesta
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ærligur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: honesto
 * Georgian: პატიოსანი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: pono
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: buotan
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: eherlich
 * Icelandic:, ráðvandur, sómakær, réttsýnn
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: vernoi, soora
 * Inuktitut:
 * Inuttut: killijijuk
 * North Baffin: ᐅᖃᕐᓗᐊᕐᑕᕐᑐᖅ
 * Irish: macánta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: адал,
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ມີຄວາມຊື່ສັດ
 * Latin: honestus
 * Macedonian: искрен
 * Malayalam: സത്യസന്ധമായ,
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: tapatahi
 * Nahuatl: melahuac
 * Norman: honnête
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ærleg
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: sōþfæst
 * Persian: ,
 * Polabian: radliťĕ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ionraic, ceart, onarach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: поштен, честит, искрен
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: poctivý
 * Slovene: ,
 * Somali: daacad
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: matapat
 * Tajik: бовиҷдон, бошараф
 * Tamil: நேர்மையான
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: че́сний,, щи́рий
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ערלעך


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Malayalam: സത്യസന്ധമായ
 * Russian:
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: heiðarlega fenginn

Verb

 * 1)  To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.

Adverb

 * 1)  Honestly; really.

Translations

 * Polish:

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) upright, decent, honorable

Adjective

 * 1) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner, The Canterbury Tales, line 327-328:
 * "enm"
 * "enm"

- ‘I graunte, y-wis,’ quod he, ‘but I mot thinke Up-on som honest thing, whyl that I drinke.’