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honesty 音标拼音: ['ɑnəsti] n. 诚实,公正,正直 诚实,公正,正直 honesty n 1: the quality of being honest [ synonym: { honesty}, { 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 [ synonym: { honesty}, { silver dollar}, { money plant}, { satin flower}, { satinpod}, { Lunaria annua}] Honesty \ Hon" es* ty\, n. [ OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honest[' e], onest[' e] ( cf. F. honn[^ e] tet[' e]), L. honestas. See { Honest}, a.] 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. [ 1913 Webster] That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. -- 1 Tim. ii. 2. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Chastity; modesty. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford' s wife. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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] 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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