Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to honest
Participle: honested
Gerund: honesting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | honest |
| you | honest |
| he;she;it | honests |
| we | honest |
| you | honest |
| they | honest |
Perfect
| I | have honested |
| you | have honested |
| he;she;it | has honested |
| we | have honested |
| you | have honested |
| they | have honested |
Past
| I | honested |
| you | honested |
| he;she;it | honested |
| we | honested |
| you | honested |
| they | honested |
Pluperfect
| I | had honested |
| you | had honested |
| he;she;it | had honested |
| we | had honested |
| you | had honested |
| they | had honested |
Future
| I | will honest |
| you | will honest |
| he;she;it | will honest |
| we | will honest |
| you | will honest |
| they | will honest |
Future Perfect
| I | will have honested |
| you | will have honested |
| he;she;it | will have honested |
| we | will have honested |
| you | will have honested |
| they | will have honested |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | honest |
| you | honest |
| he;she;it | honest |
| we | honest |
| you | honest |
| they | honest |
Perfect
| I | have honested |
| you | have honested |
| he;she;it | have honested |
| we | have honested |
| you | have honested |
| they | have honested |
Imperfect
| I | honested |
| you | honested |
| he;she;it | honested |
| we | honested |
| you | honested |
| they | honested |
Pluperfect
| I | had honested |
| you | had honested |
| he;she;it | had honested |
| we | had honested |
| you | had honested |
| they | had honested |
Conditional
Present
| I | would honest |
| you | would honest |
| he;she;it | would honest |
| we | would honest |
| you | would honest |
| they | would honest |
Perfect
| I | would have honested |
| you | would have honested |
| he;she;it | would have honested |
| we | would have honested |
| you | would have honested |
| they | would have honested |
Imperative
| you | honest |
| we | Let's honest |
| you | honest |
Verbs conjugated like 'honest'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'honest'
monest,
congest,
contest,
cotest,
forest,
hoast,
hoist,
hone,
honey,
host,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English honest, honeste (“honourable, appropriate, excellent”), from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, from honor. For the verb, see Latin honestāre (“to clothe or adorn with honour”), and compare French honester. Displaced native Old English sōþfæst (literally “truth-firm”). See: French '
honester'.
Sample Sentences
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You have very much honested my lodging with your presence. [1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]