unfeigned
/ʌnˈfeɪnd
/adjective
Genuine; sincere: a broad smile of unfeigned delight...
- She has a long speech at the end of the movie, which could have gone very wrong, but she simply delivers it with unfeigned naive honesty.
- What is most attractive about Elie's book is its earnest and unfeigned passion for such a worthy but unfashionable subject.
- There had been no formal rehearsals; the emotion had to come out raw and unfeigned; they owed this to the real people whose real stories they were reading.
Synonyms
sincere, genuine, real, true, honest, authentic, unaffected, unpretended, unforced, uncontrived, artless, candid, frank, bona fide, earnest, heartfelt, wholehearted, deep, from the heart
informal pukka, upfront, on the level
rare full-hearted
Derivatives
unfeignedly
- Bob and I helped ourselves to beers as Ray unfeignedly burned offerings to his grandfather.
- Do they see that we love our wives and husbands unfeignedly?
Rhymes
- reptile house
- reptile man
- reptile oil
- Reptilia
- reptilian
- reptilian brain
- reptiliary
- reptilious
- reptilism
- reptility
- reptillery
- reptiloid
- Repton, Humphry
- Repub.
- republic
- republical
- republican
- republican calendar
- republican era
- Republican Guard
- republicanise
- republicanism
- republicanization
- republicanize
- republicanized