What are the opposite words for frank?
Frank means straightforward, honest, and direct. Therefore, its antonyms are dishonest, insincere, and deceptive. If you are not being frank, it means that you are being disingenuous, indirect, or deceitful. Some common antonyms of frank include cunning, artful, and shrewd, which signify manipulating words or situations to one's advantage by concealing or distorting the truth. These antonyms have negative connotations as they imply false representation or pretense, while frankness reflects sincerity and candor. In communication and relationships, frankness is appreciated as it fosters openness, trust, and understanding, which are crucial for mutual growth and success.
- deep
-
sharp
- acuate,
- apical,
- briery,
- double-edged,
- horned,
- in style,
- needlelike,
- penetrative,
- pronged,
- razor-sharp,
- sharp,
- spiky,
- tined,
- vinegary,
- Acuminous,
- Needle-pointed,
- first class,
- spikiest,
- spikier,
- strong-smelling,
- firstclass,
- Unblunted,
- brierier,
- brieriest,
- clear cut,
- clearcut,
- de finite,
- de-finite,
- dis criminating,
- dis-criminating,
- double edged,
- doubleedged,
- flyest,
- ground fine,
- having smarts,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- keen edged,
- keen-edged,
- keenedged,
- knife edged,
- knife-edged,
- knifeedged,
- more acuminous,
- more apical,
- more double edged,
- more double-edged,
- more doubleedged,
- more drilling,
- more edged,
- more honed,
- more horned,
- more keen edged,
- more keen-edged,
- more keenedged,
- more knife edged,
- more knife-edged,
- more knifeedged,
- more needle pointed,
- more needle-pointed,
- more needlelike,
- more paralyzing,
- more penetrative,
- more razor sharp,
- more razor-sharp,
- more razorsharp,
- more sharp edged,
- more sharp-edged,
- more sharpened,
- more splintery,
- more strong smelling,
- more strong-smelling,
- more suffocating,
- more tapered,
- more tined,
- more tipped,
- more unblunted,
- more vinegary,
- more whetted,
- most acuate,
- most acuminous,
- most apical,
- most double edged,
- most double-edged,
- most doubleedged,
- most drilling,
- most edged,
- most honed,
- most horned,
- most keen edged,
- most keen-edged,
- most keenedged,
- most knife edged,
- most knifeedged,
- most needle-pointed,
- most needlelike,
- most needlepointed,
- most pronged,
- most razor sharp,
- most razor-sharp,
- most sharp edged,
- most sharp-edged,
- most sharpedged,
- most sharpened,
- most shooting,
- most splintery,
- most strong smelling,
- most strong-smelling,
- most suffocating,
- most tapered,
- most tined,
- most tipped,
- most unblunted,
- most vinegary,
- most whetted,
- needle pointed,
- needlepointed,
- nobody fool,
- nobodys fool,
- quick on the trigger,
- quick on the uptake,
- quick on trigger,
- quick on uptake,
- quick the trigger,
- quick the uptake,
- quick trigger,
- quick uptake,
- re sourceful,
- sharp edged,
- smart as a tack,
- smart as tack,
- strong smelling,
- un blunted,
- un ethical,
- un gracious,
- un-blunted,
- un-ceremonious,
- un-ethical,
- un-gracious.
- crooked
-
false
- casuistic,
- contrary to fact,
- rascally,
- scoundrelly,
- sophistical,
- Misrepresentative,
- Crocker,
- socalled,
- falsehearted,
- contrary fact,
- cooked-up,
- cookedup,
- counter factual,
- counter-factual,
- crockest,
- dis loyal,
- dis-loyal,
- in accurate,
- in correct,
- in valid,
- in-valid,
- madeup,
- makebelieve,
- mis representative,
- mis taken,
- mis-representative,
- more concocted,
- more cooked up,
- more cooked-up,
- more cookedup,
- more forsworn,
- more imitation,
- more misrepresentative,
- more mythomaniac,
- more rascally,
- more scoundrelly,
- more sophistical,
- most apostate,
- most casuistic,
- most concocted,
- most cooked up,
- most cooked-up,
- most cookedup,
- most fabricated,
- most forsworn,
- most imitation,
- most misrepresentative,
- mythomaniac,
- off mark,
- off the mark,
- pre-tended,
- so called,
- un faithful,
- un founded,
- un sound,
- un sounder,
- un truer,
- un truest,
- un-faithful,
- un-founded,
- un-real,
- un-sound,
- un-sounder,
- un-soundest,
- un-truer,
- un-truest.
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dishonest
- deceptive,
- lying,
- dis honest,
- dis reputable,
- dis-honest,
- dis-reputable,
- more backbiting,
- more bluffing,
- more cheating,
- more double crossing,
- more double-crossing,
- more doublecrossing,
- more hoodwinking,
- more swindling,
- more two timing,
- more two-timing,
- more twotiming,
- most backbiting,
- most bluffing,
- most cheating,
- most double crossing,
- most double-crossing,
- most doublecrossing,
- most hoodwinking,
- most swindling,
- most two timing,
- most two-timing,
- most twotiming,
- un fair,
- un fairer,
- un fairest,
- un-fair,
- un-fairer,
- un-fairest.
- deceptive
- untruthful
- unreliable
- corrupt
-
devious
- shady,
- detouring,
- de touring,
- de-touring,
- digressory,
- ex cursive,
- ex-cursive,
- faking one out,
- faking out,
- more confounding,
- more detouring,
- more digressing,
- more digressory,
- more obliquitous,
- more twisting,
- most confounding,
- most detouring,
- most digressing,
- most digressory,
- most obliquitous,
- most twisting,
- not straightforward,
- obliquitous,
- playing games,
- playing politics,
- re moved,
- re-mote.
- disingenuous
- fraudulent
-
lying
- fibbing,
- committing perjury,
- in venting,
- in-venting,
- mis representing,
- mis-representing,
- mis-stating,
- more equivocating,
- more falsifying,
- more fibbing,
- more inventing,
- more misrepresenting,
- more misstating,
- more prevaricating,
- most equivocating,
- most falsifying,
- most fibbing,
- most inventing,
- most misrepresenting,
- most misstating,
- most prevaricating.
- mendacious
- misleading
-
slippery
- in secure,
- in securer,
- in securest,
- in-constant,
- in-secure,
- in-securer,
- in-securest,
- un predictable,
- un safe,
- un safer,
- un safest,
- un stable,
- un stabler,
- un stablest,
- un steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un steady,
- un-predictable,
- un-safe,
- un-safer,
- un-safest,
- un-stable,
- un-stabler,
- un-stablest,
- un-steadier,
- un-steadiest.
-
underhand
- on the quiet,
- dirty dealing,
- dirty-dealing,
- dirtydealing,
- more dirty dealing,
- more dirty-dealing,
- more dirtydealing,
- more sub rosa,
- more sub-rosa,
- more subrosa,
- most dirty dealing,
- most dirty-dealing,
- most dirtydealing,
- most sub rosa,
- most sub-rosa,
- most subrosa,
- on qt,
- on quiet,
- sub-rosa,
- subrosa,
- un just,
- un juster,
- un justest,
- un-just,
- un-juster,
- un-justest,
- under hand,
- under-hand.
- unprincipled
- wily
-
covert
- masked,
- under-the-table,
- Incog,
- Shrouded,
- under cover,
- dis guised,
- dis-guised,
- hush hush,
- hushhush,
- in cog,
- in-cog,
- more dissembled,
- more incog,
- more shrouded,
- more under the table,
- more under-the-table,
- most dissembled,
- most incog,
- most shrouded,
- most under the table,
- most under-the-table,
- un suspected,
- under-cover.
-
deceitful
- slick,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- Astucious,
- Impostrous,
- de signing,
- de-signing,
- double-dealing,
- hypo-critical,
- more astucious,
- more deceiving,
- more feline,
- more impostrous,
- more rascal,
- most astucious,
- most beguiling,
- most deceiving,
- most feline,
- most illusory,
- most impostrous,
- most rascal,
- two faced,
- twofaced,
- un trustworthy.
-
hollow
- alveolate,
- clangorous,
- cup-shaped,
- deep-set,
- dimpled,
- incurved,
- reverberant,
- toneless,
- Infundibular,
- Cupped,
- carved out,
- cup shaped,
- cupshaped,
- de pressed,
- de-pressed,
- deep set,
- deepset,
- in curved,
- in dented,
- in-curved,
- in-dented,
- more alveolate,
- more clangorous,
- more cup shaped,
- more cup-shaped,
- more cupped,
- more deep set,
- more deep-set,
- more deepset,
- more dimpled,
- more echoing,
- more excavated,
- more incurved,
- more infundibular,
- more muted,
- more pitted,
- more reverberant,
- more rumbling,
- more sounding,
- more striated,
- more toneless,
- more troughlike,
- more vibrating,
- most cup-shaped,
- most cupped,
- most cupshaped,
- most deep set,
- most deep-set,
- most deepset,
- most dimpled,
- most echoing,
- most excavated,
- most incurved,
- most infundibular,
- most muted,
- most pitted,
- most reverberant,
- most rumbling,
- most sounding,
- most striated,
- most toneless,
- most troughlike,
- most vibrating,
- re sounding,
- re-sounding,
- troughlike,
- un availing,
- un filled,
- un-availing,
- un-filled.
- immoral
- insincere
-
shifty
- Unhonest,
- fly by night,
- more conniving,
- more contriving,
- more dodging,
- more prevaricative,
- more prevaricatory,
- more shuffling,
- more unhonest,
- most conniving,
- most contriving,
- most dodging,
- most prevaricative,
- most prevaricatory,
- most shuffling,
- most unhonest,
- prevaricative,
- prevaricatory,
- un honest,
- un-honest.
- tricky
- underhanded
-
untrustworthy
- unassured,
- untrusty,
- Trustless,
- fair-weather,
- fairweather,
- finkest,
- more fair weather,
- more fair-weather,
- more fairweather,
- more trustless,
- most fair weather,
- most fair-weather,
- most trustless,
- most unassured,
- un assured,
- un trustier,
- un trustiest,
- un-assured,
- un-trustier,
- un-trustiest,
- un-trustworthy,
- un-trusty,
- untrustiest.
-
unscrupulous
- exploitative,
- low-down,
- unconscientious,
- lowdown,
- de graded,
- de grading,
- de-graded,
- de-grading,
- dis graceful,
- dis-graceful,
- low down,
- more exploitative,
- more low down,
- more low-down,
- more lowdown,
- more unconscientious,
- most exploitative,
- most lowdown,
- most unconscientious,
- self seeking,
- selfseeking,
- un conscientious,
- un scrupulous,
- un worthier,
- un worthiest,
- un worthy,
- un-conscientious,
- un-scrupulous,
- un-worthier,
- un-worthiest.
- clandestine, underhanded
- evil, corrupt
- dishonest, insincere
-
scheming, devious
- deep.
- dishonest, crafty
- lying, untruthful
-
hypocritical
- moralistic,
- smooth-spoken,
- lefthanded,
- hypo critical,
- jivey,
- jiviest,
- left handed,
- more caviling,
- more dissembling,
- more feigning,
- more moralistic,
- more smooth spoken,
- more smooth-spoken,
- most caviling,
- most dissembling,
- most feigning,
- most moralistic,
- most smooth spoken,
- most smoothspoken,
- selfrighteous,
- smooth spoken,
- smooth tongued,
- smoothspoken,
- smoothtongued,
- un-natural.
- wrong, made up
- completely honest
- deceptive, false
- empty, hollowed out
- deceitful, pretending
- deceptive, confusing
- deceitful, untrustworthy
- uncertain, unreliable
- underhanded, dishonest
- complicated, difficult
- not trustworthy, not true
- not dependable, unfaithful
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crafty, clever
- wily.
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
inherence inherency
- Antonyms:
- acquired, alien.
