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Antonyms for onest

Grammar : Adj
Spell : wuhn
Phonetic Transcription : wÊŒn

Definition of onest

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old English an (adjective, pronoun, noun) "one," from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (cf. Old Norse einn, Danish een, Old Frisian an, Dutch een, German ein, Gothic ains), from PIE *oi-no- "one, unique" (cf. Greek oinos "ace (on dice);" Latin unus "one;" Old Persian aivam; Old Church Slavonic -inu, ino-; Lithuanian vienas; Old Irish oin; Breton un "one").
  • Originally pronounced as it still is in only, and in dialectal good 'un, young 'un, etc.; the now-standard pronunciation "wun" began c.14c. in southwest and west England (Tyndale, a Gloucester man, spells it won in his Bible translation), and it began to be general 18c. Use as indefinite pronoun influenced by unrelated French on and Latin homo.
  • One and only "sweetheart" is from 1906. One of those things "unpredictable occurrence" is from 1934. Slang one-arm bandit "a type of slot machine" is recorded by 1938. One-night stand is 1880 in performance sense; 1963 in sexual sense. One of the boys "ordinary amiable fellow" is from 1893. One-track mind is from 1927. Drinking expression one for the road is from 1950 (as a song title).
  • adj individual
Example sentences :
  • There uster be one onest, about a year ago, but he's all right now.
  • Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, September 1908, No. 5 » by Various
  • A woman's onest was not ruined by secret vice, but by the exposure of it, which brought ridicule and shame.
  • Extract from : « Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study » by Edward Hutton
  • Euclid was consulted, and recommended the "onest craft of good masonry," and the origin of the order is found "yn Egypte lande."
  • Extract from : « The Builders » by Joseph Fort Newton
  • They'd been used to all sorts of fallals, and they didn't take to 'onest feeding, not till it was too late.
  • Extract from : « The War in the Air » by Herbert George Wells

Synonyms for onest

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