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

honest \hon"est\, a. oe. honest, onest, of. honeste, oneste, f.
   honn^ete, l. honestus, fr. honos, honor, honor. see
   honor.
   1. decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. --chaucer.
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            belong what honest clothes you send forth to
            bleaching                            --shak.
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   2. characterized by integrity or fairness and
      straightforwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.;
      upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere;
      free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said
      of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral
      quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an
      honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business;
      an honest book; an honest confession.
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            an honest man's the noblest work of god. --pope.
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            an honest physician leaves his patient when he can
            contribute no farther to his health.  --sir w.
                                                  temple.
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            look ye out among you seven men of honest report.
                                                  --acts vi. 3.
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            provide things honest in the sight of all men.
                                                  --rom. xii.
                                                  17.
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   3. open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
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   4. chaste; faithful; virtuous.
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            wives may be merry, and yet honest too. --shak.

   syn: upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful;
        equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid;
        genuine.
        1913 webster
see also:
honor 

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

honest \hon"est\, v. t. l. honestare to clothe or adorn with
   honor: cf. f. honester. see honest, a.
   to adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate,
   or honorable. obs. --abp. sandys.
   1913 webster
see also:
honest 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

honest
     adj 1: not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or
            fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an
            honest wage"; "honest weight" syn: honorable ant:
             dishonest
     2: without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion"
     3: worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an
        honest working stiff"; "a reliable source of information";
        "he was true to his word"; "i would be true for there are
        those who trust me" syn: dependable, reliable, truep
     4: free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest" syn: guileless
     5: without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good
        honest food"
     6: habitually speaking the truth; "an honest man"; "a veracious
        witness" syn: veracious
     7: marked by truth; "gave honest answers"
see also:
honorable dishonest dependable reliable truep guileless 
veracious 

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

162 moby thesaurus words for "honest":
   christian, angelic, authentic, blameless, bona fide, candid,
   card-carrying, clean, conscientious, creditable, decent,
   dependable, dinkum, direct, dispassionate, equitable, erect,
   estimable, ethical, explicit, fair, following the letter,
   forthright, frank, full of integrity, genuine, godly, good,
   high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest-to-god,
   honorable, immaculate, inartificial, incorruptible, ingenuous,
   inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving,
   law-revering, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, manly, moral,
   native, natural, naturalistic, noble, objective, on the level,
   open, original, plain, plain-spoken, principled, proper, pure,
   real, realistic, reliable, reputable, respectable, right,
   right-minded, righteous, rightful, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous,
   seraphic, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sound, spotless, square,
   square-dealing, square-shooting, stainless, sterling, straight,
   straightforward, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature,
   true to reality, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing,
   true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, trustworthy, trusty,
   truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unambiguous, unartificial,
   unassumed, unassuming, unblemished, uncolored, unconcocted,
   unconstrained, uncopied, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncounterfeited,
   undefiled, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembled,
   undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful,
   unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined,
   unimitated, unimpeachable, uninhibited, uninvented, unpretended,
   unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unreserved, unrestrained,
   unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unspotted, unstained,
   unsullied, unsynthetic, untarnished, unvarnished, upright,
   uprighteous, upstanding, valid, veracious, verbal, verbatim,
   veridical, verisimilar, virtuous, word-for-word, worthy,
   yeomanly

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