Qualities
Synonyms for honest
Synonyms for honest: fair and honorable. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for honest
- fairadjective, in the sense "gained or earned without cheating or stealing"
- honorableadjective, in the sense "not disposed to cheat or defraud"
All two are filed under honest's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
gained or earned without cheating or stealing
An honest wage.
The true synonym
fair
Same sentence, swapped: An fair wage.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- true
- simple
- frank
not disposed to cheat or defraud
Gave honest answers.
The true synonym
honorable
Same sentence, swapped: Gave honorable answers.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot honest is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- dishonest
- simple
- natural
Where honest turns up in the game
honest is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where honest is the trap
- fairadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is bonnie, in the sense "very pleasing to the eye", so honest is there to be ruled out.
Play honest
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so honest reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company honest keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. honest carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.