What are the opposite words for dishonest?
Dishonest is an adjective that describes someone who is not truthful, sincere or trustworthy. Some common antonyms for dishonest include honest, truthful, sincere, reliable, credible, trustworthy, and ethical among others. Honest typically means speaking the truth and not deceiving others, while truthful means being sincere and straightforward in speech and action. Sincere describes someone who is genuine and truthful in their dealings, while reliable means dependable and consistent. For credibility, it means earning trust, respect and having a reputation for honesty. Trustworthy means being reliable, dependable and honest in dealing with others while ethical means following a moral principle of right conduct.
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- pure
- certain
- true
- open
- reputable
- literal
- sound
- real
- direct
- good
- uniform
- vocal
- innocent
- respectable
- virtuous
- dull
- proper
- authoritative
- simple
- believable
- square
- round
- truthful
- reliable
- clean
- transparent
- material
- serious
- straight
- vertical
- flat
- bluff
- candid
- constant
- demonstrative
- devoted
- ethical
- even
- fair
- genuine
- guileless
- hearty
- honest
- incorruptible
- invariant
- moral
- plainspoken
- plumb
- sincere
- steadfast
- straightforward
- unaffected
- unvarnished
- upright
- abrupt
- accurate
- conscientious
- consistent
- credible
- dependable
- devout
- faithful
- forthright
- frank
- holy
- honorable
- ingenuous
- legitimate
- natural
- official
- perpendicular
- righteous
- scrupulous
- trustworthy
- unpretentious
- unsophisticated
- worthy
- right
- correct, without error
- all
- recognized as true, valid
- not sharp
- undoubtable, valid
- chaste, virtuous
- thorough, careful
- constant, regular
- loyal, determined
- expressive, communicative
- reliable, responsible
- committed, loyal
- sincerely believing; devoted
- lying, untruthful
- flat, uniform
- energetic, enthusiastic
- impartial, unprejudiced
- straightforward, honest
- completely honest
- authentic, real
- moral, virtuous
- truthful, candid
- honest, honorable
- harmless, naive
- authentic, valid, legal
- word for word; exact, real
- obvious, understandable
- bodily, tangible
- ethical, honest
- open, unaffected
- authorized, legitimate
- unfastened, unclosed
- at right angles to
- straightforward in speech
- mannerly, decent
- unmixed, genuine
- genuine in existence
- good, honest
- ball-shaped; semicircular area
- extremely careful
- somber, humorless
- childlike, innocent
- dependable, reliable
- accepted, established
- aligned; not curved
- real, valid; concordant with facts
- accurate, honest
- honest, unsophisticated
- natural, simple
- plain, honest
- straight-up
- extroverted about opinion
- honorable, respectable
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
pure
- inviolate,
- maidenly,
- pure and simple,
- unmingled,
- unspotted,
- Kidder,
- Unblighted,
- babe in woods,
- babe woods,
- in violate,
- in-violate,
- kiddest,
- lily white,
- more inviolate,
- more unblighted,
- more unmingled,
- more unprofaned,
- more unspotted,
- most inviolate,
- most maidenly,
- most unblighted,
- most unmingled,
- most unprofaned,
- most unspotted,
- out and out,
- pure as driven snow,
- pure simple,
- twenty four carat,
- twenty-four carat,
- un clouded,
- un diluted,
- un mingled,
- un profaned,
- un spotted,
- un-blemished,
- un-blighted,
- un-diluted,
- un-mingled,
- un-spotted,
- wet behind ears.
-
certain
- confirmable,
- establishable,
- having down pat,
- in bag,
- in controvertible,
- in dubitable,
- in-controvertible,
- in-dubitable,
- more ascertained,
- more confirmable,
- more predestined,
- most ascertained,
- most confirmable,
- most establishable,
- most predestined,
- pre destined,
- pre-destined,
- un ambiguous,
- un doubted,
- un erring,
- un mistakable,
- un-doubted,
- un-mistakable.
- true
-
open
- dehiscent,
- getable,
- in question,
- unbolted,
- unburdened,
- uncluttered,
- unstopped,
- Patulous,
- Ringent,
- Securable,
- Unshut,
- nondiscriminatory,
- Undissembled,
- on deck,
- up for discussion,
- be had,
- dis closed,
- dis-closed,
- ex posed,
- ex tended,
- ex tensive,
- ex-posed,
- ex-tended,
- in decisive,
- in-decisive,
- made passable,
- more agape,
- more dehiscent,
- more disclosed,
- more emptied,
- more expanded,
- more getable,
- more patulous,
- more peeled,
- more rent,
- more ringent,
- more securable,
- more unbarred,
- more unbolted,
- more unburdened,
- more uncluttered,
- more undissembled,
- more unfolded,
- more unfurled,
- more unplugged,
- more unshut,
- most agape,
- most dehiscent,
- most disclosed,
- most emptied,
- most expanded,
- most getable,
- most nondiscriminatory,
- most patulous,
- most peeled,
- most rent,
- most revealed,
- most ringent,
- most unbolted,
- most unburdened,
- most uncluttered,
- most undissembled,
- most unfolded,
- most unfurled,
- most unplugged,
- most unsealed,
- most unshut,
- most unstopped,
- most yawning,
- non discriminatory,
- not posted,
- opendoor,
- re moved,
- spread out,
- un barred,
- un bolted,
- un burdened,
- un cluttered,
- un committed,
- un conditional,
- un covered,
- un dissembled,
- un folded,
- un furled,
- un impeded,
- un locked,
- un obstructed,
- un occupied,
- un qualified,
- un resolved,
- un sealed,
- un settled,
- un shut,
- un stopped,
- un-barred,
- un-blocked,
- un-burdened,
- un-cluttered,
- un-committed,
- un-conditional,
- un-dissembled,
- un-folded,
- un-furled,
- un-impeded,
- un-locked,
- un-obstructed,
- un-occupied,
- un-plugged,
- un-qualified,
- un-settled,
- un-shut,
- un-stopped,
- up air,
- up in air,
- up the air,
- well known,
- wellknown,
- yet be decided,
- yet to be decided.
- reputable
- literal
- sound
- real
-
direct
- head-on,
- lineal,
- linear,
- outspoken,
- person-to-person,
- undisguised,
- matter of fact,
- pointblank,
- head on,
- matter-of-fact,
- ex press,
- ex-press,
- headon,
- in bee line,
- in straight line,
- more beeline,
- more head on,
- more head-on,
- more headon,
- more lineal,
- more linear,
- more person to person,
- more person-to-person,
- more resultant,
- more straightaway,
- more unbroken,
- more undisguised,
- most beeline,
- most head on,
- most head-on,
- most headon,
- most lineal,
- most linear,
- most person to person,
- most person-to-person,
- most resultant,
- most straightaway,
- most unbroken,
- most undisguised,
- non-stop,
- not crooked,
- person to person,
- point blank,
- straight ahead,
- straight from shoulder,
- straight from the shoulder,
- un broken,
- un concealed,
- un disguised,
- un swerving,
- un-broken,
- un-concealed,
- un-disguised,
- un-swerving.
- good
-
uniform
- undiversified,
- well-proportioned,
- in corrigible,
- in-corrigible,
- more undiversified,
- more unmodifiable,
- more well proportioned,
- more wellproportioned,
- most undiversified,
- most unmodifiable,
- most well proportioned,
- most well-proportioned,
- most wellproportioned,
- un alterable,
- un diversified,
- un modifiable,
- un-alterable,
- un-diversified,
- un-modifiable,
- uni form,
- uni-form,
- wellbalanced.
- vocal
-
innocent
- innoxious,
- offenseless,
- uncool,
- unmalicious,
- unsuspicious,
- well-intentioned,
- well-meant,
- wide-eyed,
- Hurtless,
- Unhurtful,
- Uninjurious,
- in experienced,
- in nocent,
- in nocuous,
- in noxious,
- in-experienced,
- in-nocent,
- in-nocuous,
- in-noxious,
- in-obnoxious,
- inobnoxious,
- more innoxious,
- more inobnoxious,
- more uncool,
- more unmalicious,
- more unsuspicious,
- more well intentioned,
- more well-intentioned,
- more wellintentioned,
- more wellmeant,
- more wide eyed,
- more wide-eyed,
- more wideeyed,
- most hurtless,
- most innoxious,
- most inobnoxious,
- most offenseless,
- most uncool,
- most unhurtful,
- most uninjurious,
- most unmalicious,
- most well intentioned,
- most well-intentioned,
- most wellintentioned,
- most wellmeant,
- most wide eyed,
- most wide-eyed,
- most wideeyed,
- un acquainted,
- un cool,
- un familiar,
- un hurtful,
- un injurious,
- un malicious,
- un offensive,
- un suspicious,
- un-acquainted,
- un-cool,
- un-familiar,
- un-injurious,
- un-malicious,
- un-objectionable,
- un-offensive,
- un-suspicious,
- well intentioned,
- well meant,
- wellintentioned,
- wellmeant,
- wide eyed.
- respectable
- virtuous
-
dull
- edentulate,
- edgeless,
- toothless,
- unpointed,
- unsharpened,
- more blunted,
- more edentate,
- more edentulate,
- more edgeless,
- more turned,
- more unpointed,
- more unsharpened,
- most blunted,
- most edentate,
- most edgeless,
- most toothless,
- most turned,
- most unpointed,
- most unsharpened,
- not keen,
- un pointed,
- un sharpened,
- un-pointed,
- un-sharpened.
- proper
- authoritative
- simple
- believable
-
square
- boxlike,
- boxy,
- equilateral,
- orthogonal,
- rectangular,
- right-angled,
- square,
- squarish,
- behind times,
- boxier,
- boxiest,
- button down,
- buttondown,
- equal-sided,
- more boxlike,
- more equal sided,
- more equalsided,
- more equilateral,
- more foursquare,
- more on the level,
- more on-the-level,
- more orthogonal,
- more quadrate,
- more quadratic,
- more quadratical,
- more rectangular,
- more right angled,
- more right-angled,
- more rightangled,
- more sportspersonlike,
- more squared,
- most equal sided,
- most equal-sided,
- most equalsided,
- most on the level,
- most on-the-level,
- most orthogonal,
- most quadrate,
- most quadratic,
- most quadratical,
- most rectangular,
- most rectilinear,
- most right angled,
- most right-angled,
- most sporting,
- most sportspersonlike,
- most squared,
- most squarish,
- on-the-level,
- out of date,
- quadra-tical,
- quadratical,
- recti linear,
- right angled,
- rightangled,
- sportspersonlike.
-
round
- bulbous,
- discoid,
- globose,
- orbicular,
- spheroid,
- unmodified,
- Domical,
- Orbed,
- disk-shaped,
- disk shaped,
- diskshaped,
- egg shaped,
- more curled,
- more discoid,
- more disk shaped,
- more disk-shaped,
- more diskshaped,
- more domical,
- more globose,
- more orbed,
- more orbicular,
- more orbiculate,
- more ringed,
- more unmodified,
- most curled,
- most discoid,
- most disk shaped,
- most disk-shaped,
- most diskshaped,
- most domical,
- most globose,
- most orbed,
- most orbicular,
- most orbiculate,
- most ringed,
- most spheroid,
- most unmodified,
- re sounding,
- re-sounding,
- roly poly,
- rolypoly,
- un divided,
- un modified,
- un-divided,
- un-modified.
- truthful
- reliable
- clean
- transparent
- material
-
serious
- cold sober,
- long-faced,
- unhumorous,
- go for broke,
- bound determined,
- de liberate,
- de-liberate,
- in tent,
- long faced,
- longfaced,
- more long faced,
- more long-faced,
- more longfaced,
- more resolved,
- more unsmiling,
- most long-faced,
- most longfaced,
- most resolved,
- most unhumorous,
- most unsmiling,
- re-solved,
- un humorous,
- un smiling,
- un-smiling.
-
straight
- buttoned-down,
- collinear,
- in order,
- rectilineal,
- unbent,
- uncurled,
- buttoned down,
- buttoneddown,
- like an arrow,
- more arranged,
- more buttoned-down,
- more buttoneddown,
- more collinear,
- more rectilineal,
- more sorted,
- more uncurled,
- most arranged,
- most buttoned down,
- most buttoned-down,
- most buttoneddown,
- most collinear,
- most rectilineal,
- most sorted,
- most unbent,
- most uncurled,
- put rights,
- put to rights,
- recti lineal,
- recti-lineal,
- un bent,
- un curled,
- un relieved,
- un-bent,
- un-curled,
- un-relieved.
- vertical
- flat
- bluff
- candid
- constant
- demonstrative
- devoted
- ethical
-
even
- invariant,
- planate,
- unfluctuating,
- unvaried,
- unwrinkled,
- more stabile,
- more surfaced,
- more unwrinkled,
- most planate,
- most surfaced,
- most unfluctuating,
- most unvaried,
- most unwrinkled,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- sur faced,
- sur-faced,
- un fluctuating,
- un interrupted,
- un varied,
- un wrinkled,
- un-fluctuating,
- un-varied,
- un-wrinkled.
- fair
-
genuine
- carat,
- heartfelt,
- sure-enough,
- unalloyed,
- Undesigning,
- for real,
- honest to goodness,
- more -carat,
- more carat,
- more honest to goodness,
- more honest-to-goodness,
- more sure enough,
- more unalloyed,
- more undesigning,
- more well established,
- more wellestablished,
- most -carat,
- most certified,
- most honest to goodness,
- most honest-to-goodness,
- most sure enough,
- most sure-enough,
- most unalloyed,
- most undesigning,
- most well established,
- most well-established,
- most wellestablished,
- sureenough,
- un adulterated,
- un designing,
- un feigned,
- un-adulterated,
- un-alloyed,
- un-designing,
- un-feigned,
- well established,
- wellestablished.
- guileless
- hearty
-
honest
- candid,
- direct,
- guileless,
- impartial,
- law-abiding,
- reputable,
- straightforward,
- upfront,
- on the up and up,
- fair square,
- law abiding,
- lawabiding,
- more above board,
- more above-board,
- more law abiding,
- more law-abiding,
- more lawabiding,
- more upfront,
- most above board,
- most above-board,
- most law abiding,
- most law-abiding,
- most lawabiding,
- most upfront,
- on and up,
- on the and up,
- on the up,
- on the up up,
- on up,
- on up up,
- up-front,
- what you see is what you get.
-
incorruptible
- imperishable,
- indestructible,
- inextinguishable,
- undestroyable,
- unbribable,
- in corruptible,
- in destructible,
- in extinguishable,
- in-corruptible,
- in-destructible,
- in-extinguishable,
- more inextinguishable,
- more unbribable,
- more undestroyable,
- most inextinguishable,
- most unbribable,
- most undestroyable,
- un bribable,
- un destroyable,
- un touchable,
- un-bribable,
- un-destroyable,
- un-touchable.
- invariant
- moral
- plainspoken
- plumb
-
sincere
- Dead level,
- dead-level,
- deadlevel,
- more dead level,
- more dead-level,
- more deadlevel,
- more meant,
- more pretensionless,
- most dead level,
- most dead-level,
- most deadlevel,
- most meant,
- most pretensionless,
- no fooling,
- on line,
- on the line,
- on up and up,
- pre tensionless,
- pre-tensionless,
- pretensionless,
- sure enough,
- twentyfour carat.
-
steadfast
- never-failing,
- singleminded,
- in flexible,
- in-exorable,
- in-flexible,
- more never-failing,
- more neverfailing,
- most never failing,
- most never-failing,
- most neverfailing,
- never failing,
- neverfailing,
- single minded,
- un bending,
- un faltering,
- un flinching,
- un movable,
- un questioning,
- un yielding,
- un-bending,
- un-faltering,
- un-flinching,
- un-movable,
- un-yielding.
-
straightforward
- straightarrow,
- undemanding,
- Plain-dealing,
- Pretenseless,
- Undissembling,
- clear cut,
- clearcut,
- laid line,
- laid on line,
- laid on the line,
- laid the line,
- more plain dealing,
- more plain-dealing,
- more plaindealing,
- more pretenseless,
- more right on,
- more right-on,
- more righton,
- more square shooting,
- more square-shooting,
- more squareshooting,
- more straight arrow,
- more straight-arrow,
- more straightarrow,
- more undemanding,
- more undissembling,
- most plain dealing,
- most plain-dealing,
- most plaindealing,
- most pretenseless,
- most right on,
- most right-on,
- most righton,
- most square shooting,
- most square-shooting,
- most squareshooting,
- most straight arrow,
- most straight-arrow,
- most straightarrow,
- most undemanding,
- most undissembling,
- plain dealing,
- plaindealing,
- pre tenseless,
- pre-tenseless,
- right-on,
- righton,
- square shooting,
- square-shooting,
- squareshooting,
- straight-arrow,
- un complicated,
- un demanding,
- un dissembling,
- un-complicated,
- un-demanding,
- un-dissembling.
- unaffected
- unvarnished
- upright
- abrupt
- accurate
-
conscientious
- conscionable,
- high-principled,
- ex acting,
- ex-acting,
- heart and soul into,
- heart soul in to,
- high minded,
- high principled,
- highminded,
- highprincipled,
- minding p and q,
- minding p q,
- minding p's and q's,
- minding p's q's,
- minding ps and qs,
- minding ps qs,
- more conscionable,
- more high principled,
- more high-principled,
- more highprincipled,
- most conscionable,
- most high principled,
- most high-principled,
- most highprincipled,
- walking eggs,
- walking on eggs.
- consistent
- credible
- dependable
-
devout
- heart and soul,
- goody goody,
- goody two shoes,
- heart-and-soul,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- more adoring,
- more heart and soul,
- more heart-and-soul,
- more revering,
- more venerating,
- most adoring,
- most heart and soul,
- most heart-and-soul,
- most revering,
- most worshiping,
- pro found,
- pro founder,
- pro-found,
- pro-founder.
- faithful
- forthright
-
frank
- lay on the line,
- heart-to-heart,
- saying what one thinks,
- lay it on the line,
- bare-faced,
- bare faced,
- flatout,
- heart to heart,
- lay it line,
- lay it on line,
- lay it the line,
- lay line,
- lay on line,
- lay the line,
- more bare faced,
- more bare-faced,
- more flat out,
- more flat-out,
- more flatout,
- more heart to heart,
- more heart-to-heart,
- most bare faced,
- most bare-faced,
- most flat out,
- most flat-out,
- most flatout,
- most heart to heart,
- most heart-to-heart,
- out right,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- out-right,
- out-righter,
- saying what thinks,
- un inhibited,
- un restricted,
- un-inhibited,
- un-restricted.
- holy
- honorable
-
ingenuous
- ingenuous,
- Unartful,
- un-artificial,
- Unartificial,
- like a babe in the woods,
- like a babe in woods,
- like a babe the woods,
- like a babe woods,
- like babe in the woods,
- like babe in woods,
- like babe the woods,
- like babe woods,
- more unartful,
- more unartificial,
- most unartful,
- most unartificial,
- un artful,
- un artificial,
- un schooled,
- un-artful,
- un-schooled.
- legitimate
-
natural
- uncontrived,
- unembarrassed,
- Inartificial,
- Unlabored,
- unassumed,
- being oneself,
- in-artificial,
- laid back,
- laidback,
- more inartificial,
- more simplehearted,
- more unassumed,
- more uncontrived,
- more unembarrassed,
- more unlabored,
- more up front,
- more up-front,
- most inartificial,
- most simplehearted,
- most unassumed,
- most uncontrived,
- most unlabored,
- most up front,
- most up-front,
- simplehearted,
- un assumed,
- un contrived,
- un embarrassed,
- un forced,
- un labored,
- un polished,
- un-assumed,
- un-contrived,
- un-embarrassed,
- un-forced.
- official
- perpendicular
- righteous
- scrupulous
- trustworthy
-
unpretentious
- inelaborate,
- unambitious,
- unembellished,
- unpretentious,
- easy going,
- Unbeautified,
- Unpresumptuous,
- easy-going,
- down home,
- free spirited,
- free-spirited,
- freespirited,
- in elaborate,
- in-elaborate,
- more easy going,
- more easy-going,
- more free spirited,
- more free-spirited,
- more freespirited,
- more inelaborate,
- more unambitious,
- more unbeautified,
- more uncomplex,
- more unpresumptuous,
- most easy going,
- most free spirited,
- most free-spirited,
- most freespirited,
- most inelaborate,
- most unambitious,
- most unbeautified,
- most uncomplex,
- most unpresumptuous,
- un ambitious,
- un beautified,
- un complex,
- un embellished,
- un imposing,
- un obtrusive,
- un ostentatious,
- un presumptuous,
- un pretentious,
- un spoiled,
- un-ambitious,
- un-beautified,
- un-complex,
- un-embellished,
- un-imposing,
- un-obtrusive,
- un-ostentatious,
- un-presumptuous,
- un-pretentious,
- un-spoiled,
- uncomplex.
- unsophisticated
- worthy
- right
- correct, without error
- all
- recognized as true, valid
-
not sharp
- dull.
- undoubtable, valid
- chaste, virtuous
- thorough, careful
- constant, regular
- loyal, determined
- expressive, communicative
- reliable, responsible
- committed, loyal
- sincerely believing; devoted
-
lying, untruthful
- aboveboard,
- ethical,
- fair,
- faithful,
- forthright,
- frank,
- genuine,
- good,
- honest,
- honorable,
- just,
- moral,
- open,
- principled,
- real,
- reliable,
- scrupulous,
- straight,
- trustworthy,
- truthful,
- upright,
- valid.
-
flat, uniform
- even.
- energetic, enthusiastic
-
impartial, unprejudiced
- fair.
- straightforward, honest
- completely honest
- authentic, real
-
moral, virtuous
- good.
- truthful, candid
- honest, honorable
- harmless, naive
- authentic, valid, legal
- word for word; exact, real
- obvious, understandable
- bodily, tangible
- ethical, honest
- open, unaffected
- authorized, legitimate
-
unfastened, unclosed
- open.
- at right angles to
- straightforward in speech
- mannerly, decent
-
unmixed, genuine
- pure.
-
genuine in existence
- real.
- good, honest
- ball-shaped; semicircular area
- extremely careful
- somber, humorless
- childlike, innocent
- dependable, reliable
- accepted, established
- aligned; not curved
-
real, valid; concordant with facts
- true.
- accurate, honest
- honest, unsophisticated
- natural, simple
- plain, honest
- straight-up
- extroverted about opinion
- honorable, respectable
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
wreathes
- Antonyms:
- uncover, unwrap, stay.
