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forthrightness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, ingenuousness, naiveté, openness, outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, straightforwardness, truthfulness, unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | integrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, uprightness |
| Synonyms: | candor, forthrightness, goodness, honestness, honesty, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, straightforwardness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | corruption, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor |
| Main Entry: | sportsmanship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | fairness, forthrightness, gamesmanship, goodness, honesty, honor, honorableness, principle, righteousness, sincerity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | inexpertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inexperience |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, greenness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, rawness, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
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| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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above suspicion, arcadian, artless, blameless, bloodguiltless, blunt, candid, clear, direct, dove, faultless, frank, guileless, guiltless, harmless, harmless as doves, honest, immaculate, impeccant, inartificial, inculpable, indefectible, inerrable, ingenit, ingenuous, innocent, innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, irreprehensible, irreproachable, irreprovable, lamb, native, natural, naïve, not guilty, open, pauciplicate, plain, pure, salvable, saturnian, simple, sincere, sinless, spotless, stainless, straightforward, unaffected, unblamable, unblemished, unculpable, undefiled, undesigning, unerring, unexceptionable, unflattering, unguilty, unhardened, unimpeachable, unimpeached, unobjectionable, unpoetical, unreproached, unreproved, unreserved, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstudied, untutored, venial, virtuous
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| Concept: | Freedom. |
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-nouns
freedom, liberty, independence; license (permission); facility., scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall., franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen., autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]., immunity, exemption; emancipation (liberation); enfranchisement, affranchisement., free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne, mortmain., bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.
-verbs
be free; have scope, have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself., take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave., set free (liberate); give a loose to (permit); allow scope to, give scope to; give a horse his head., make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise., laisser faire, laisser aller; live and let live; leave to oneself; leave alone, let alone.
-adjectives
free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself., in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled., unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled., unrestricted, unlimited, unconditional; absolute; discretionary (optional)., unassailed, unforced, uncompelled., unbiassed, spontaneous., free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished.
-adverbs
freely; ad libitum (at will).
-phrases
ubi libertas ibi patria.
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| Antonyms: | subjection |
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| Concept: | Innocence. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
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-nouns
innocence; guiltlessness; incorruption, impeccability., clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil]., innocent, lamb, dove.
-verbs
be innocent; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Horace]., acquit; exculpate (vindicate).
-adjectives
innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian (artless)., inculpable, unculpable; unblamed, unblamable; blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial., harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]., virtuous; unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached.
-adverbs
innocently; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience.
-phrases
murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].
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| Antonyms: | guilt |
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