different between honest vs outgoing

English

Etymology

From Middle English honest, honeste, from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, from honor. For the verb, see Latin honest?re (“to clothe or adorn with honour”), and compare French honester. Displaced Old English ferht (“honest”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n?st/
  • (RP dated) IPA^(key): /???n?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?st/

Adjective

honest (comparative honester or more honest, superlative honestest or most honest)

1. (of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
   • c. 1680, William Temple, Of Popular Discontents

     A true and honest physician is excused for leaving his patient, when he finds the disease grown desperate

2. (of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.

3. In good faith; without malice.

4. (of a measurement device) Accurate.

5. Authentic; full.

6. Earned or acquired in a fair manner.

7. Open; frank.

8. (obsolete) Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
9. (obsolete) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:honest

Antonyms

• dishonest

Derived terms

• honesty
• keep someone honest
• make an honest woman

Translations

Verb

honest (third-person singular simple present honests, present participle honesting, simple past and past participle honested)

1. (obsolete) To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman

     You have very much honested my lodging with your presence.

Adverb

honest (comparative more honest, superlative most honest)

1. (colloquial) Honestly; really.

   It wasn’t my fault, honest.

Further reading

• honest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• honest in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Heston, Stheno, oneths

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin honestus.

Adjective

honest (feminine honesta, masculine plural honests or honestos, feminine plural honestes)

1. upright, decent, honorable

Derived terms

• deshonest
• honestament

Related terms

• honestedat
• honor

Further reading

• “honest” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “honest” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “honest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “honest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Pronunciation

• (adjective, verb) IPA^(key): /a?t??????/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /?a?t??????/

Adjective

outgoing (comparative more outgoing, superlative most outgoing)

1. Extraverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably.

   Tom is very outgoing and enjoys meeting people; his brother, on the other hand, is painfully shy.

   • 2003, Bernardo J. Carducci, Lisa Kaiser, The Shyness Breakthrough, page 124,

     Quieter parents, who prefer a less stimulating lifestyle, may be baffled and challenged by these same outgoing kids.

   • 1996, Stanley I. Greenspan, Jacqueline Salmon, The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five “Difficult” Types of Children, page 308,

     The outgoing former leader may have difficulty slowing down, being reflective, and studying and may be insensitive in a close relationship.

   • 2006, Direct Selling Women's Alliance, More Build It Big: 101 Insider Secrets from Top Direct Selling Experts, page 264,

     Think of it this way: Some people are more outgoing, while others are more reserved.

   • 2010, Ruth Ames, This Totally Bites!, back cover,

     Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents.

2. (not comparable) Going out, on its way out.

   Is there any outgoing post?

   • 1917 August 27, President of the United States (Woodrow Wilson), Executive Order 2692,

     In the neighborhood of each defensive sea area the following entrances are designated for incoming and outgoing vessels: Atlantic. […] Designated entrance for outgoing vessels: The main entrance to the Panama Canal, between the breakwaters. Pacific. […] Designated entrance for outgoing vessels: Canal prism.

   • 1922, John Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science, Volume I, Part III,

     There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water.

   • 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 26,

     By KRIYA, the outgoing life force is not wasted and abused in the senses, but constrained to reunite with subtler spinal energies.

3. (not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced).

   The outgoing politician wasn't too disappointed he'd lost the election; he was tired of political infighting.

   • 1893, Henry Billings Brown, Supreme Court of the United States, United States v. Fletcher: Opinion of the Court,

     […] it appears […] that, by an arrangement between the outgoing and incoming marshal, the latter was to have the fees earned upon all writs in the hands of the deputies of the former at the date the office changed hands. It further appeared that the outgoing marshal made no claim to these fees.

   • 1957, United Nations, Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency,

     The outgoing Board of Governors shall designate for membership on the Board the ten members most advanced in the technology of atomic energy including the production of source materials, […]

   • 1998, Suharto, Suharto's Resignation Speech,

     As of this day too, the Seventh Development Cabinet is outgoing and to the ministers I express my thanks.

Antonyms

• (extraverted): introverted, antisocial, reserved, shy, withdrawn, quiet, mousy
• (going out): incoming

Derived terms

• outgoingly
• outgoingness

Translations

Noun

outgoing (plural outgoings)

1. The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.

   • the outgoings of the morning and evening

   • 1749, Jonathan Edwards, An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd

     […] any present thirstings for God, or ardent outgoings of their souls after divine objects […]

2. (chiefly in the plural) Money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense.
3. The extreme limit; the place of ending.

   • The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan.

Synonyms

• outgang

Verb

outgoing

1. present participle of outgo

Anagrams

• going out