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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Not feigned or affected; genuine: sincere indignation.
  2. adj. Being without hypocrisy or pretense; true: a sincere friend.
  3. adj. Archaic Pure; unadulterated.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Sound; whole; unbroken; without error, defect, or injury.
  2. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated; free from imitation; good throughout: as, sincere work.
  3. Having no admixture; free; clear: followed by of.
  4. Unalloyed or unadulterated by deceit or unfriendliness; free from pretense or falsehood; honestly felt, meant, or intended: as, a sincere wish; a sincere effort.
  5. Free from duplicity or dissimulation; honest in speech or intention; guileless; truthful; frank.
  6. Morally pure; undepraved; upright; virtuous; blameless.
  7. Synonyms and Fair, Open, etc. (see candid); Cordial, Sincere, etc. (see hearty), unfeigned, undissembling, artless, heartfelt.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. earnest; meaning what one says or does; truthful.
  2. adj. meant truly or earnestly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated.
  2. adj. obsolete Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured.
  3. adj. Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real.
  4. adj. Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
  2. adj. open and genuine; not deceitful

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French sincère, from Latin sincerus ("genuine"), from Proto-Indo-European *sin- + *ker- (“grow”), from which also Ceres ("goddess of harvest") from which English cereal. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin sincērus; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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