 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
honesty
noun
1: the quality of being honest [syn: {honestness}] [ant: {dishonesty}]
2: southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant
purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white
seedpods that are used for indoor decoration [syn: {silver
dollar}, {money plant}, {satin flower}, {satinpod}, {Lunaria
annua}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Honesty \Hon"es*ty\, noun [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF.
honest['e], onest['e] (cf. F. honn[^e]tet['e]), L. honestas.
See {Honest}, adjective]
1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness;
decency. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
--Shak.
2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness
and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.;
integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or
guile.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all
godliness and honesty. --1 Tim. ii.
2.
3. Chastity; modesty. --Chaucer.
To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's
wife. --Shak.
4. (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs
having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of
which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also
{lunary} and {moonwort}. {Lunaria biennis} is common
honesty; {Lunaria rediva} is perennial honesty.
Syn: Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness;
faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor;
plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lunaria \Lunaria\ prop. n.
A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family,
including the herb {honesty} ({Lunaria annua}), which is also
called {moonwort} and {lunary}.
Syn: genus {Lunaria}.
[WordNet 1.5]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "honesty":
absolute realism, artlessness, assured probity, authenticity,
blamelessness, bluntness, bona fideness, candor, character,
cleanness, conscientiousness, decency, dependability, directness,
disinterestedness, equitableness, equity, erectness, estimableness,
fairness, forthrightness, frankness, genuineness, good character,
goodness, guilelessness, high ideals, high principles,
high-mindedness, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, impartiality,
inartificiality, incorruption, ingenuousness, integrity,
irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness,
legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness,
moral excellence, moral strength, morality, naturalism,
naturalness, nobility, objectivity, openness, outspokenness,
photographic realism, principles, probity, pureness, purity,
realism, realness, rectitude, reliability, reputability,
respectability, righteousness, scrupulousness, sincerity,
stainlessness, straightforwardness, true-to-lifeness,
trustworthiness, truth to nature, truthfulness, unadulteration,
unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unimpeachability,
unimpeachableness, unspeciousness, unspottedness, unspuriousness,
unsyntheticness, uprightness, upstandingness, veracity,
verisimilitude, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness
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