name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
honesty
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ɪ.sti/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ə.sti/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒn.ə.stɪ/
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Received-Pronunciation, dated: /ˈɔː.nɪstɪ/
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General-American, dialectal: /ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/ of Canada
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General-American, dialectal: /ˈɑ.nə.sti/ of Canada
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Canada, dialectal: /ˈɒn.ɪ.sti/ of the US
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Canada, dialectal: /ˈɒn.ə.sti/ of the US
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Australian: /ˈɔn.ɪ.sti/
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Australian: /ˈɔn.ə.sti/
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New-Zealand: /ɒn.ə.sti/
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New-Zealand: [ˈɔ̟n.ə.sti]
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CMU ARPABET: AA1 N AH0 S T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty
- brutal / devastating / searing honesty
- 1787, George Colman, Junior, Inkle and Yarico, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act 2, p. 45, O give me your plain dealing Fellows Who never from honesty shrink; Not thinking on all they shou’d tell us, But telling us all that they think.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: candor, sincerity, frankness, honesty, sincereness, truthfulness, veraciousness, veracity, veridicality
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Honor; decency, propriety.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: integrity, rectitude, uprightness, angelicality, angelicalness, angelicity, angelicness, decency, godliness, honesty, honor, probity, propriety, righteousness, rightfulness, saintlikeness, saintliness, seemlihood, seemliness, virtuousness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Chastity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Examples
- c. 1625, John Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn, Act V, Scene 1, in Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, New York: Appleton, 1890, Volume 2, p. 669, [...] Oh, these vild women, That are so ill preservers of men’s honours, They cannot govern their own honesties!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chasteness, continence
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
the quality of being honest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: honestness
Antonyms: dishonesty
Broader terms: righteousness
Narrower terms: scrupulousness, integrity, incorruptness, incorruption, incorruptibility, candor, candour, candidness, frankness, directness, forthrightness, good faith, straightness, truthfulness
noun
Meaning 7
southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: silver dollar, money plant, satin flower, satinpod, Lunaria annua
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
History
Etymology
From Middle English honeste (“honour, integrity”), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté). By surface analysis, honest + -y. Displaced native Old English sōþfæstnes and non-native Middle English prodonomee, from Old French prodomie. The plant is named so after the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods.
Across languages
Translations
91 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: ndershmëri — quality of being honest
- Armenian: անմիջականություն (anmiǰakanutʻyun) — quality of being honest
- Armenian: առաքինություն (aṙakʻinutʻyun) — quality of being honest
- Belarusian: сумле́ннасць (sumljénnascʹ) — quality of being honest
- Bulgarian: че́стност (čéstnost) — quality of being honest
- Bulgarian: правди́вост (pravdívost) — quality of being honest
- Catalan: honradesa — quality of being honest
- Catalan: honestedat — quality of being honest
- Chinese Mandarin: 誠實 /诚实 (chéngshí) — quality of being honest
- Czech: poctivost — quality of being honest
- Danish: ærlighed — quality of being honest
- Dutch: eerlijkheid — quality of being honest
- Esperanto: honesto — quality of being honest
- Finnish: rehellisyys — quality of being honest
- French: honnêteté — quality of being honest
- Georgian: პატიოსნება (ṗaṭiosneba) — quality of being honest
- German: Ehrlichkeit — quality of being honest
- Greek: εντιμότητα (entimótita) — quality of being honest
- Greek: τιμιότητα (timiótita) — quality of being honest
- Greek: χρηστότητα (christótita) — quality of being honest
- Greek: ευσυνειδησία (efsyneidisía) — quality of being honest
- Greek: ηθικότητα (ithikótita) — quality of being honest
- Greek: ευθύτητα (efthýtita) — quality of being honest
- Hindi: सच्चाई (saccāī) — quality of being honest
- Hungarian: becsületesség — quality of being honest
- Hunsrik: Eherlichkeet — quality of being honest
- Hunsrik: Eherlichkeit — quality of being honest
- Irish: ionracas — quality of being honest
- Italian: onestà — quality of being honest
- Italian: lealtà — quality of being honest
- Italian: correttezza — quality of being honest
- Japanese: 正直 (shōjiki) — quality of being honest
- Korean: 정직 (jeongjik) — quality of being honest
- Lao: ຄວາມສັດຊື່ (khuām sat sư̄) — quality of being honest
- Latin: honestas — quality of being honest
- Latin: probitās — quality of being honest
- Macedonian: искреност (iskrenost) — quality of being honest
- Malay: sathyasandhatha — quality of being honest
- Māori: ngākaupono — quality of being honest
- Marathi: प्रमाणिकता (prāmāṇikatā) — quality of being honest
- Norwegian Bokmål: ærlighet — quality of being honest
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ærlegdom — quality of being honest
- Occitan: onestetat — quality of being honest
- Occitan: aunestetat — quality of being honest
- Occitan: onestat — quality of being honest
- Old English: sōþfæstnes — quality of being honest
- Polish: szczerość — quality of being honest
- Polish: uczciwość — quality of being honest
- Portuguese: honestidade — quality of being honest
- Romanian: onestitate — quality of being honest
- Russian: че́стность (čéstnostʹ) — quality of being honest
- Russian: добросовестность (dobrosovestnostʹ) — quality of being honest
- Russian: правди́вость (pravdívostʹ) — quality of being honest
- Russian: и́скренность (ískrennostʹ) — quality of being honest
- Scottish Gaelic: ionracas — quality of being honest
- Scottish Gaelic: onair — quality of being honest
- Serbo-Croatian: искреност — quality of being honest
- Serbo-Croatian: iskrenost — quality of being honest
- Slovak: poctivosť — quality of being honest
- Slovene: poštenost — quality of being honest
- Spanish: honradez — quality of being honest
- Spanish: sinceridad — quality of being honest
- Spanish: honestidad — quality of being honest
- Swedish: ärlighet — quality of being honest
- Swedish: hederlighet — quality of being honest
- Tagalog: katapatan — quality of being honest
- Tagalog: onestidad — quality of being honest
- Tamil: நேர்மை (nērmai) — quality of being honest
- Telugu: నిజాయితి (nijāyiti) — quality of being honest
- Thai: ความสัตย์ (kwaam-sàt) — quality of being honest
- Turkish: dürüstlük — quality of being honest
- Ukrainian: че́сність (čésnistʹ) — quality of being honest
- Ukrainian: правди́вість (pravdývistʹ) — quality of being honest
- Vietnamese: tánh thành thật — quality of being honest
- Vietnamese: tánh thanh liêm — quality of being honest
- Volapük: snat — quality of being honest
- Yiddish: ערלעכקייט (erlekhkeyt) — quality of being honest
- Zulu: ubuqotho — quality of being honest
- Arabic: not known in Arabic lands — ornamental plant
- Bulgarian: лунария (lunarija) — ornamental plant
- Catalan: setins — ornamental plant
- Danish: judaspenge — ornamental plant
- Finnish: kuuruoho — ornamental plant
- French: monnaie-du-pape — ornamental plant
- German: Mondviole — ornamental plant
- German: Silberblatt — ornamental plant
- Hungarian: holdviola — ornamental plant
- Irish: sailchuach na gealaí — ornamental plant
- Norman: monnaie dé pape — ornamental plant
- Romanian: pana-zburătorului — ornamental plant
- Spanish: monedas del Papa — ornamental plant