bona fide as an adjective: - 1
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bona fide
adjective
1 bona fide
Undertaken in good faith.
Roget 543:
truthful,
true;
veracious,
veridical;
scrupulous
etc.
(honorable)
939;
sincere,
candid,
frank,
open,
straightforward,
unreserved;
open hearted,
true hearted,
simple-hearted;
honest,
trustworthy;
undissembling
etc.
(dissemble)
etc.
544†;
guileless,
pure;
truth-loving;
unperjured†;
true blue,
as good as one's word;
unaffected,
unfeigned,
bona fide;
outspoken,
ingenuous
etc.
(artless)
703;
undisguised
etc.
(real)
494.
uncontrived.
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2 bona fide
adverb
Roget 543:
truly
etc.
(really)
494;
in plain words
etc.
703;
in truth,
with truth,
of a truth,
in good truth;
as the dial to the sun,
as the needle to the pole;
honor bright;
troth;
in good sooth†,
in good earnest;
unfeignedly,
with no nonsense,
in sooth†,
sooth to say†,
bona fide,
in foro conscientiae [Lat.];
without equivocation;
cartes sur table,
from the bottom of one's heart;
by my troth
etc.
(affirmation)
535.
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Roget 939:
honorable
etc.
adj.;
bona fide;
on the square,
in good faith,
honor bright,
foro conscientiae [Lat.],
with clean hands.
Moby thesaurus: aboveboard, attested, authentic, candid, card-carrying, consistently, constantly, devotedly, dinkum, fair and square, faithfully, firmly, following the letter, foursquare, genuine, good, good-faith, honest, honest-to-God, in good faith, inartificial, indubitable, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loyally, natural, naturalistic, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, original, pure, real, realistic, responsibly, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, staunchly, steadfastly, steadily, sterling, straight, straight-shooting, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undoubted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, up-and-up, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, veritable, with good faith, word-for-word ... show more.
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