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say it: AH-nuhst
honest is an adjective meaning "not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent". It carries 7 recorded senses.
worthy of being depended on
“a dependable worker”
“an honest working stiff”
“a reliable source of information”
“he was true to his word”
“I would be true for there are those who trust me”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for honest come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.