Dictionary Entry
honest
honest is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
- 4adjective
Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
- 5adjective
To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
- 6adjective
gained or earned without cheating or stealing
"an honest wage"
"an fair penny"
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- 7adjective
not forged
"a good dollar bill"
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- 8adjective
not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
"honest lawyers"
"honest reporting"
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- 9adjective
marked by truth
"gave honest answers"
"honest reporting"
- 10adjective
without pretensions
"worked at an honest trade"
"good honest food"
- 11adjective
without dissimulation; frank
"my honest opinion"
- 12adjective
worthy of being depended on
"a dependable worker"
"an honest working stiff"
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