honest Copy link Outline 1. prŏbus2. sincērus (genuine, free from deception of any kind)3. simplex, ĭcis (straightforward, frank)4. antīquus (strictly, old-fashioned5. frŭgi, strictly dat. of frux, but used as adject. • honest: 1. prŏbus: v. good, upright. 2. sincērus (genuine, free from deception of any kind): v. sincere. 3. simplex, ĭcis (straightforward, frank): v. simple. 4. antīquus (strictly, old-fashioned: hence honest and naive, simple and unsuspecting): good, h. souls, judging others from their own nature, homines a., qui ceteros ex sua natura fingerent, Cic. R. Am. 9, 26: cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 88, homo antiqua virtute ac fide, "an h. man of the old genuine sort." 5. frŭgi, strictly dat. of frux, but used as adject.: comp. frugalior, -issimus (strictly, tending to profit: hence, useful, worthy, honest): h., sober men, homines frugi ac sobrii, Cic. Verr. 3, 27, 67: so h. and so chaste (Penelope), tam f. tamque pudica, Hor. S. 2, 5, 77: cf. Cic. Font. 13, 29, tanta virtute atque integritate ut ... solus frugi (opp. to nequam) nominaretur: often used as an epithet of a good, h. slave, servus f. atque integer, Cic. Clu. 16, 47: Hor. Join: (homo) frugalissimus, sanctissimus, Cic. Fl. 29, 71. See also incorruptible. (N.B.--Not honestus, which is honourable.)
HONEST Copy link • HONESTUpright, guileless, etc., bonus: probus: sanctus (SYN. in HONORABLE): sincerus (PROP., without strange or foreign addition; hence pure, genuine; opposed to fucatus): verus (true; opposed to falsus, simulatus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) sincerus atque verus: incorruptus (uncorrupted: opposed to corruptus; these three of persons and things): candidus (pure; of character): simplex (plain, straightforward, simple): integer (not influenced by any corrupt motive, impartial; these three ofpersons): apertus (open, not dissembling). (The words are found in this connection and order.) apertus et simplex. An honest friend, ex animo amicus; amicus fidus: an honest man, vir bonus or probus; homo integer, or innocens, or religiosus; homo sine fuco et fallaciis (straightforward and honest); homo apertae voluntatis, simplicis ingenii, veritatis amicus; homo antiqua fide; vir minime fallax: anybody looks like an honest man, alicujus probitatem ex ore ac fronte ejus cognoscere potes (after Cic., Fat., 5, 10): an honest simple-minded man, homo antiquus (hence easily taken in) an honest judgement, judicium incorruptum. Honorable, etc., Vid: HONESTLY, probe: integre: sancte: recte (with moral rectitude): sine fraude: sine fuco et fallaciis (without pretence and trickiness): sincere: vere: candide: simpliciter: genuine: aperte: fideliter: ex animo: ex animi sententia: sincera fide: sine dolo: sine fraude (in a guileless, upright, sincere manner): honestly? bona fide? (e.g., are you in earnest?): to act honestly, sincere, ex animo, sincera fide agere; with anybody, *sine fraude agere cum aliquo: to confess honestly, aperte et ingenue confiteri: to judge honestly, incorrupte et integre judicare: to speak honestly, loqui sincere, sine dolo or fraude: I will tell you honestly my own opinion, quid ipse sentiam vere, ingenue, aperte, ex animi sententia dicam: to speak honestly, ne mentiar; si quaeris, or quaeritis, or quaerimus; si verum scire vis; ut ingenue or aperte dicam.