Related Searches
Nearby Words
openness
| Concept: | Simplicity. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity.
-verbs
be simple, render simple; simplify.
-adjectives
simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household., unaffected; free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Horace]; sans facon, en deshabille., chaste, inornate, severe., unadorned, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished., bald, flat, dull.
-phrases
veritatis simplex oratio est.
|
| Antonyms: | ornament |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Concept: | Veracity. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
veracity; truthfulness, frankness; truth, sincerity, candor, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides; love of truth; probity; ingenuousness (artlessness)., the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth, sober truth (fact) [more]; unvarnished tale; light of truth.
-verbs
speak the truth, tell the truth; speak by the card; paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors; make a clean breast (disclose); speak one's mind (be blunt) [more]; not lie, not deceive [more].
-adjectives
truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous (honorable); sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling (dissemble [more]); guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous (artless); undisguised (real).
-adverbs
truly (really); in plain words; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth, in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth (affirmation).
-phrases
di il vero a affronterai il diavolo; Dichtung und Wahrheit; esto guod esse videris; magna est veritas et praevalet; "that golden key that opes the palace of eternity" [Milton]; veritas odium parit; veritatis simplex oratio est; verite sans peur.
|
| Antonyms: | falsehood; untruth; deception |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Concept: | Perspicuity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
perspicuity, perspicuousness (intelligibility); plain speaking (manifestation); definiteness, definition; exactness; explicitness, lucidness.
-adjectives
|
| Antonyms: | obscurity |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Concept: | Plainness. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
plainness; simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
-verbs
call a spade "a spade"; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
-adjectives
plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic., dry, unvaried, monotonous.
-adverbs
in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance; point-blank.
|
| Browse Concept Index » | |
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
