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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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honestly

/ˈɒnɪstli/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈɒnɪstli/

honestly

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

ho - nes - tly -> honestly

Myanmar meaning

(adv) ရိုးသားစွာ။ (n) ရိုးသားမူ။

Full entry

honest /'ɒnÇst/ adj

၁။ (က) မှန်ကန်သော၊ ဖြောင့်မတ်သော၊ ရိုးသား သော (သူ)။ an honest witness / businessman ❍ He was honest enough to admit that he knew nothing about the subject. (ခ) ပွင့်လင်းသော။ အရိုးခံဖြစ်သော။ အမှန်အတိုင်းဖြစ် သော။ give an honest opinion ❍ a refreshingly honest exchange of views ❍ To be (quite) honest I have never been so depressed by a book in all my life. (ဂ) ရိုးသား တည်ကြည်သော။ ရိုးပုံရိုးလက်ရှိသော။ မခိုမကပ်သော။ an honest face ❍ do an honest day's work ❍ He looks honest enough, but can we trust him? Compare DISHONEST
၂။ ဓမ္မိယလဒ္ဓဖြစ်သော (အခ၊ ကြေးငွေ စသည်)။ make an honest living ❍ try to earn an honest penny.
adv (infml ) တကယ့်ကို။ အမှန်အားဖြင့်။ it wasn't me, honest!
❏ honest broker n ရွှေပြည်အေးသမား။
❏ honestly adv
၁။ ရိုးရိုးသားသား။ deal honestly with sb.
၂။ တကယ့်ကို။ အကယ်စင်စစ်။ I don't honestly know. ❍ Honestly, Helen, that's all the money I've got! ❍ I think I can honestly say I've never smoked in my life. ❍ Quite honestly, she isn't the sort of person we're looking for.
၃။ တကယ်ပါပဲ။ တကယ့်ကို။ Honestly! What a fuss he's making!
❏ honest-to-goodness adj (approv ) ရိုးရိုး။ စစ်စစ်။ တကယ်တမ်း။ a bit of honest-to-goodness hard work ❍ There's nothing like an honest-to-goodness cup of tea!
❏ make an honest woman of sb [IDM ] (dated joc ) ကျူးလွန်ပြီးနောက်မှ လက်ထပ်သည်။

More examples

Most young people are decent and honest.
An honest man
[honest about] : I haven’t been completely honest about my past experience.
[honest with] : Thank you for being so honest with me.
I want you to give me an honest answer.
An honest appraisal of his ability can only help him.
[an honest mistake] : I gave her the wrong amount of money, but it was an honest mistake.
When is the last time Charlie did any honest work?
[an honest living] : I’m just trying to earn an honest living (=earn money by working hard).

Synonyms

truthful, sincere, frank, candid, straightforward, direct, open, above-board, authentic, bona fide, conscientious, decent, equitable, ethical, fair, fair and square, forthright, genuine, good, high-minded, honorable, impartial, ingenuous, just, law-abiding, lay it on the line, like it is, moral, no lie, on the level, on the up and up, outright, plain, proper, real, reliable, reputable, scrupulous, straight, true, true blue, trustworthy, trusty, undisguised, unfeigned, upfront, upright, veracious, virtuous, what you see is what you get

Antonyms

biased, corrupt, counterfeit, deceitful, deceptive, devious, dishonest, false, fraudulent, immoral, insincere, irresponsible, lying, misleading, partial, prejudiced, treacherous, unfair, unjust, unreal, unreasonable, unreliable, unsuitable, untrustworthy, untruthful

Cross references

truthful sincere frank candid straightforward direct open above-board authentic bona fide conscientious decent equitable ethical fair fair and square forthright genuine good high-minded honorable impartial ingenuous just law-abiding lay it on the line like it is moral

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