[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

candid \candid\ ka^n"di^d, a. f. candide cf. it.
   candido, l. candidus white, fr. cand=ere to be of a
   glowing white; akin to accende^re, incende^re, to set on
   fire, skr. chand to shine. cf. candle, incense.
   1. white. obs.
      1913 webster

            the box receives all black; but poured from thence,
            the stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge
      according to truth and justice, or without partiality or
      prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.
      "candid and dispassionate men." --w. irving.
      1913 webster

   3. open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.

   syn: fair; open; ingenuous; impartial; just; frank; artless;
        unbiased; equitable.

   usage: candid, fair, open, frank, ingenuous. a man
          is fair when he puts things on a just or equitable
          footing; he is candid when be looks impartially on
          both sides of a subject, doing justice especially to
          the motives and conduct of an opponent; he is open and
          frank when he declares his sentiments without reserve;
          he is ingenuous when he does this from a noble regard
          for truth. fair dealing; candid investigation; an open
          temper; a frank disposition; an ingenuous answer or
          declaration.
          1913 webster
see also:
candle incense candid fair open frank 
ingenuous 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

candid
     adj 1: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
            subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight
            shooting"; "a blunt new england farmer"; "i gave them
            my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a
            forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you
            think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is
            possible to be outspoken without being rude";
            "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank
            accusation" syn: blunt, forthright, frank, free-spoken,
             outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder
     2: informal or natural; especially caught off guard or
        unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview"
     3: openly straightforward and direct without reserve or
        secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting
        nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk" syn: open, heart-to-heart
     4: starkly realistic; "i have never lacked candid critics in my
        own ranks"-clement atlee
see also:
blunt forthright frank free-spoken outspoken plainspoken 
point-blank straight-from-the-shoulder open heart-to-heart 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

227 moby thesaurus words for "candid":
   olympian, spartan, aboveboard, accessible, all jaw, approachable,
   artless, ascetic, austere, authentic, bald, bare, bluff, blunt,
   bona fide, born yesterday, broad, brusque, card-carrying, chatty,
   childlike, common, commonplace, communicative, confiding,
   conversable, conversational, demonstrative, detached, dinkum,
   direct, disinterested, dispassionate, downright, dry, dull,
   effusive, equal, equitable, expansive, explicit, extroverted, fair,
   flip, fluent, following the letter, forthright, frank,
   frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting, free-going,
   free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, freehanded,
   gabby, garrulous, gassy, genuine, glib, good, gossipy, gregarious,
   guileless, gushy, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, honest,
   honest-to-god, impartial, impersonal, impromptu, inartificial,
   informal, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, just, lawful, lean,
   legitimate, lifelike, literal, lofty, long-winded, loquacious,
   matter-of-fact, multiloquent, multiloquious, naive, native,
   natural, naturalistic, neat, neutral, newsy, objective, open,
   openhearted, original, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, plain,
   plain-speaking, plain-spoken, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy,
   pure, real, realistic, rightful, round, rustic, scrupulous,
   self-revealing, self-revelatory, selfless, severe, simon-pure,
   simple, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere,
   single-hearted, single-minded, smooth, sober, sociable, spare,
   stark, sterling, straight, straight-out, straightforward,
   sure-enough, talkative, talky, transparent, true to life,
   true to nature, true to reality, trustful, trusting, truthful,
   unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unartificial, unassumed,
   unassuming, unbiased, unbigoted, uncalculated, uncalculating,
   unchecked, uncolored, unconcealed, unconcocted, unconstrained,
   uncontrived, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful, undeceiving,
   undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling,
   undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful,
   unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded,
   unhampered, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, uninfluenced,
   uninvented, unpoetical, unprejudiced, unpremeditated, unpretended,
   unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unrepressed, unreserved,
   unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unromantic, unsecretive,
   unselfish, unshrinking, unsilent, unsimulated, unsophisticated,
   unspecious, unsuppressed, unsuspicious, unswayed, unsynthetic,
   unvarnished, unwary, upright, verbal, verbatim, verbose, veridical,
   verisimilar, voluble, windy, word-for-word

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