candid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪd/
rhymes: -ændɪd
Forms: form: more candid
form: candider
form: most candid
form: candidest
Etymology: From Latin candidus (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: He knew not where to look for faithful advice, efficient aid, or candid judgement.
ref: 1828, Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, […], →OCLC, book XII, page 269:
text: Asked about the Brexit vote, the candid president told Marr: «I am not the one to judge or comment on the decision of your people.»
ref: 2018 January 21, Oli Smith, The Sunday Express:
synonyms: word: unbiased
word: unprejudiced
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Impartial and free from prejudice.
examples: text: “I know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough;—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.[…]”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 29:
text: My candid opinion was that it was all rubbish!
ref: 1871, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, translation of original by Jules Verne:
text: Sam Altman, the chief executive and co-founder of OpenAI, has been ousted from his own company after its board accused him of “being not consistently candid in his communications”.
ref: 2023 November 18, Blake Montgomery, Dani Anguiano, “OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: frank
parrhesiastic
unreserved
glosses: Straightforward, open and sincere.
examples: text: Will the introduction of supplementary flash or flood intrude on a candid picture situation or ruin the mood?
ref: 2002, Popular Photography:
glosses: Not posed or rehearsed.
examples: text: The Box receives all Black, but, pour'd from thence, / The Stones came candid forth; the Hue of Innocence.
ref: 1717, Catcott, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Samuel Garth, Leonard Welsted, “Book XV”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 511:
glosses: Bright; white.
Derived terms: candid camera
candidity
candidly
candidness
supercandid
uncandid
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