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bluntness
noun as in honesty
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in honorableness
noun as in incorruptibility
Strong matches
- candor
- confidence
- conscientiousness
- equity
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- frankness
- genuineness
- goodness
- honor
- honorableness
- impeccability
- integrity
- justness
- loyalty
- morality
- openness
- outspokenness
- plainness
- principle
- probity
- rectitude
- reputability
- responsibility
- right
- scrupulousness
- self-respect
- sincerity
- soundness
- straightforwardness
- straightness
- trustiness
- trustworthiness
- uprightness
- veracity
- virtue
Weak matches
noun as in rudeness
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in upstandingness
Weak matches
- candor
- confidence
- conscientiousness
- equity
- evenhandedness
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- frankness
- genuineness
- goodness
- honor
- honorableness
- impeccability
- incorruptibility
- integrity
- justness
- loyalty
- morality
- openness
- outspokenness
- plainness
- principle
- probity
- rectitude
- reputability
- responsibility
- right
- scrupulousness
- self-respect
- sincerity
- soundness
- straightforwardness
- straightness
- trustiness
- trustworthiness
- uprightness
- veracity
- virtue
Example Sentences
Members of The Times newsroom during his tenure remember Miller for his bluntness as an editor.
It did not hurt her at the polls though, and she carried that bluntness into her Westminster career.
But there’s a sort of bluntness about the film’s conclusion.
A lot of people “don’t really understand what he did,” Spencer said with characteristic bluntness in another interview on the eve of a 2011 presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.
But Rashid’s bluntness and candour have also landed him in trouble.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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