good faith

1. 1.

   having honest intentions

   “he acted in good faith”

   “doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants”

   Synonymsstraightness

   Broaderhonesty

Questions about good faith

What does good faith mean?

good faith means "having honest intentions".

What is another word for good faith?

Close synonyms include straightness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is good faith a common word?

good faith is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.