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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

genuine, real, and having or showing honesty; being free from any form of lying or deception;

e.g. When she offered you a place to stay, it was sincere: she wants you to stay.

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Similar Words

Artless

Childlike

Genuine

Guileless

Heart-to-heart

Heartfelt

Honest

Impressionable

Ingenuous

Innocent

Naive

Natural

Persuadable

Point-blank

Real

True

Unaffected

Undesigning

Unfeigned

Unpretentious

Unsubtle

Worthwhile

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Opposite Words

Affected

Arch

Artful

Artificial

Assumed

Assuming

Backhand

Backhanded

Beguiling

Bogus

Cagey

Calculating

Canny

Canting

Civilized

Claptrap

Contrived

Cosmopolitan

Counterfeit

Crafty

Critical

Crooked

Cultivated

Cultured

Cunning

Cute

Cutesy

Deceitful

Deceptive

Designing

Devious

Dishonest

Dodgy

Double

Double-dealing

Factitious

Fake

False

Feigned

Flattering

Flip

Flippant

Forced

Fulsome

Glib

Goody-goody

Gushy

Hagiographic

Hypocritical

Insincere

Knavish

Left-handed

Lip

Lying

Manipulative

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Mechanical

Mendacious

Mock

Oily

Oleaginous

Pert

Pharisaical

Phony

Plastic

Polished

Pretentious

Pseudo

Put-on

Rectitudinous

Refined

Sanctimonious

Scheming

Self-righteous

Sham

Shifty

Simon-pure

Simulated

Skeptical

Slick

Slippery

Sly

Slyly

Smooth

Smooth-tongued

Soapy

Sophisticated

Spurious

Strained

Subtle

Suspicious

Sycophantic

Tricky

Two

Two-faced

Uncandid

Unctuous

Underhanded

Unforthcoming

Unnatural

Untruthful

Wary

Wily

Worldly

Worldly-wise

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Related Words

Abrupt

Artless

Authentic

Big

Bluff

Blunt

Brusque

Candid

Childlike

Consequential

Crusty

Curt

Dependable

Dewy-eyed

Direct

Downright

Earth-shattering

Earthshaking

Eventful

Forthcoming

Forthright

Foursquare

Frank

Free

Free-spoken

Genuine

Good

Gullible

Hearty

Historic

Honest

Important

Impressionable

Ingenuous

Major

Malleable

Material

Meaningful

Momentous

Monumental

Much

Open

Openhearted

Out-front

Outspoken

Persuadable

Plain

Plainspoken

Reliable

Responsible

Safe

Secure

Short

Significant

Simpleminded

Single-minded

Snippy

Solid

Spontaneous

Steady

Straight

Straightforward

Substantial

Sure

Susceptible

Tectonic

Translucent

Transparent

Tried

Tried-and-true

True

Trustful

Trustworthy

Trusty

Unaffected

Unceremonious

Unforced

Unguarded

Unreserved

Unsophisticated

Unstudied

Unwary

Unworldly

Up-front

Weighty

Wholehearted

Wide-eyed

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Quotes

• "If you are sincere, praise is effective. If you are insincere, it's manipulative. " -- Zig Ziglar

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