honest

I adjective aboveboard, accurate, actual, artless, as represented, authentic, bald, blunt, candid, clean, conscientious, correct, creditable, decent, downright, earnest, equitable, erect, estimable, ethical, evenhanded, exact, factual, fair, fair-dealing, forthright, frank, free from fraud, genuine, guileless, historical, honorable, impartial, impeccable, inartificial, incapable of deceit, incorrupt, incorruptible, ingenuous, innocent, inviolate, irrepoachable, just, laudable, law-abiding, legal, legitimate, licit, literal, moral, open, outspoken, plain-speaking, principled, probus, proper, pure, reliable, reputable, respectable, right, scrupulous, simplex, sincere, sincerus, sound, stainless, sterling, straightforward, true, true to the facts, truehearted, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unbiased, unbnbable, uncolored, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undiluted, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, undistorted, unembroidered, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfaked, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, ungarbled, uninvented, unperjured, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unspurious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, veracious, veridical, veritable, well-principled associated concepts: honest belief, honest claim, honest dispute II index actual, authentic, bona fide, candid, clean, conscientious, credible, direct (forthright), equitable, ethical, factual, fair (just), faithful (true to fact), genuine, high-minded, impartial, incorruptible, ingenuous, irreprehensible, just, law-abiding, meritorious, moral, proper, reliable, reputable, right (correct), rightful, scrupulous, sterling, straightforward, true (authentic), unaffected (sincere), upright, veridical