honesty

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒn.ɪ.sti/|/ˈɒn.ə.sti/|/ˈɒn.ə.stɪ/|/ˈɔː.nɪstɪ/    美 /ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/|/ˈɑ.nə.sti/|/ˈɔn.ɪ.sti/|/ˈɔn.ə.sti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act, quality, or condition of being honest. countable,uncountable
    — academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty
  2. Honor; decency, propriety. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?
  3. Chastity. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] spend all I have; only give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford’s wife […]
  4. Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals, particularly annual honesty (Lunaria annua). countable
    — Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.

词形变化

honesties plural

词汇关系

反义词
dishonesty
衍生词
annual honesty honesty bar honesty box honesty is the best policy honesty jar in all honesty intellectual honesty maiden's honesty overhonesty unhonesty

词源

From Middle English honeste (“honour, integrity”), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté) (honest + -y); the plant, from the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods. Displaced native Old English sōþfæstnes; and non-native Middle English prodonomee, from Old French prodomie.
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