Synonyms for sincere
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Earnest — genuine, honest, and free from pretense or deceit; heartfelt
earnest, honest, genuine, cordial, true, simple, unfeigned, hearty, truthful, serious, guileless, ingenuous, frank, faithful, candid, real, dear, pure, pyore US, plain, unreserved, solemn, artless
Other
heart-felt, devout formal, whole-hearted, single-hearted, free, inward, inartificial, undissembling, straight-forward, blunt, outspoken, explicit
Definitions
- adj. 1
Genuine, honest, and free from pretense or deceit; heartfelt.
I believe he is sincere in his offer to help.
Related words
- Word family
- sincereness sincerity
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Sincere applies to the feelings, as being all that one's words would imply.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- honest Say what you will, I think he is an honest person.
- genuine These letters have been acknowledged to be genuine.
- earnest He said in earnest that he would quit the company.
- cordial I was pleased no end by the cordial welcome.
By length
- 4 letters
- real1, free1, true1, dear1, pure1
- 5 letters
- frank1, plain1, blunt1, pyore
- 6 letters
- simple2, honest2, candid2, hearty2, solemn2, inward2, devout2
- 7 letters
- serious3, genuine3, earnest2, cordial2, artless
- 8 letters
- faithful2, explicit3, truthful2
- 9 letters
- outspoken3, guileless2, ingenuous4, unfeigned
- 10 letters
- unreserved
- 12 letters
- inartificial
- 13 letters
- undissembling
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (simple2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- sincère
- Italiano
- sincero
- Español
- sincero
- Deutsch
- aufrichtig
- Català
- sincer