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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sincere \Sin*cere"\, adjective [Compar. {Sincerer}; superl. {Sincerest}.] [L. sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli (see {Single}), and the second to cernere to separate (cf. {Discern}): cf. F. sinc['e]re.]
1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated.
There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. --Arbuthnot.
A joy which never was sincere till now. --Dryden.
2. Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured. [Obs.]
The inviolable body stood sincere. --Dryden.
3. Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness.
A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions. --Law.
4. Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person.
The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account. --Waterland.
Syn: Honest; unfeigned; unvarnished; real; true; unaffected; inartificial; frank; upright. See {Hearty}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sincere
adjective
1: open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship" [ant: {insincere}]
2: characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social message" [syn: {earnest}, {in earnest(p)}, {solemn}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "sincere": abandoned, aboveboard, actual, afire, ardent, artless, authentic, bluff, blunt, bona fide, born yesterday, bound, bound and determined, broad, brusque, burning, candid, card-carrying, childlike, committed, confiding, dear, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, determined, devoted, devout, dinkum, direct, downright, earnest, explicit, faithful, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, following the letter, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, good, guileless, heart-to-heart, heartfelt, hearty, heated, honest, honest-to-God, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, in earnest, inartificial, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, intense, intent, intent on, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loyal, meant, naive, natural, naturalistic, obstinate, on fire, on the level, open, openhearted, original, outspoken, passionate, perfervid, persevering, persistent, plain, plain-spoken, pure, purposeful, real, realistic, red-hot, relentless, resolute, resolved, rightful, round, serious, simon-pure, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, single-hearted, single-minded, spirited, sterling, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sure-enough, tenacious, transparent, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, trustful, trusting, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unchecked, uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling, undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unreserved, unrestrained, unromantic, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unsuspicious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, unwary, vehement, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, warm, white-hot, wholehearted, word-for-word, zealous
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