Sincere

Adjective

 * 1) earnest; meaning what one says or does; truthful.
 * I believe he is sincere in his offer to help.
 * 1) meant truly or earnestly.
 * She gave it a sincere, if misguided effort.

Antonyms

 * insincere

Related terms

 * cereal
 * Ceres
 * crescent
 * sincerity

Adverbs for Sincere
unaffectedly; charmingly; graciously; affably; cordially; pleasantly; utterly; delightfully ; ardently;  honestly;   remarkably; plainly; genuinely; dependably; scrupulously; earnestly; fervently; enthusiastically; punctiliously; particularly; reliably

Thesaurus
abandoned, aboveboard, actual, afire, ardent, artless, authentic, bluff, blunt, bona fide, born yesterday, bound, bound and determined, broad, brusque, burning, candid, card-carrying, childlike, committed, confiding, dear, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, determined, devoted, devout, dinkum, direct, downright, earnest, explicit, faithful, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, following the letter, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, good, guileless, heart-to-heart, heartfelt, hearty, heated, honest, honest-to-God, hot, hot-blooded, impassioned, in earnest, inartificial, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, intense, intent, intent on, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loyal, meant, naive, natural, naturalistic, obstinate, on fire, on the level, open, openhearted, original, outspoken, passionate, perfervid, persevering, persistent, plain, plain-spoken, pure, purposeful, real, realistic, red-hot, relentless, resolute, resolved, rightful, round, serious, simon-pure, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, single-hearted, single-minded, spirited, sterling, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sure-enough, tenacious, transparent, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, trustful, trusting, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unchecked, uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling, undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unreserved, unrestrained, unromantic, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unsuspicious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, unwary, vehement, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, warm, white-hot, wholehearted, word-for-word, zealous

Etymology
From sincère:, from  sincerus:, from  +, from which also Ceres: from which English cereal:.

Unrelated to sine: cera: (folk etymology); see Wikipedia discussion.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Azeri: səmimi
 * Catalan: sincer
 * Chinese: 真誠, 真诚 (zhēnchéng)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sincera
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 誠実な (seijitsu na)
 * Korean: 진실한 (jinsilhan)
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: szczery
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sincer
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: uppriktig
 * Turkish: samimi, içten,  yürekten,  kalpten
 * Volapük: ladöfik

Anagrams

 * ceresin

Adjective
sincere



Anagrams

 * censire, crisene, recensì, recinse, scernei, secerni