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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CANDID, a.
1. White.
2. Fair; open; frank; ingenuous; free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; applied to persons.
3. Fair; just; impartial; applied to things; as a candid view, or construction.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight- from-the-shoulder]
2: informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview"
3: openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk" [syn: candid, open, heart-to-heart]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: French & Latin; French candide, from Latin candidus bright, white, from cand?re to shine, glow; akin to Welsh can white, Sanskrit candati it shines Date: 1606 1. white <candid flames> 2. free from bias, prejudice, or malice ; fair <a candid observer> 3. a. marked by honest sincere expression <a candid discussion> b. indicating or suggesting sincere honesty and absence of deception <her candid face> c. disposed to criticize severely ; blunt <candid critics> 4. relating to or being photography of subjects acting naturally or spontaneously without being posed Synonyms: see frank • candidly adverb • candidness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 frank; not hiding one's thoughts. 2 (of a photograph) taken informally, usu. without the subject's knowledge. Phrases and idioms: candid camera a small camera for taking candid photographs. Derivatives: candidly adv. candidness n. Etymology: F candide or L candidus white

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Candid Can*did (k[a^]n"d[i^]d), a. [F. candide (cf. It. candido), L. candidus white, fr. cand[=e]re to be of a glowing white; akin to accend[e^]re, incend[e^]re, to set on fire, Skr. chand to shine. Cf. Candle, Incense.] 1. White. [Obs.] The box receives all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. --Dryden. 2. Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion. ``Candid and dispassionate men.'' --W. Irving. 3. Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken. Syn: Fair; open; ingenuous; impartial; just; frank; artless; unbiased; equitable. Usage: Candid, Fair, Open, Frank, Ingenuous. A man is fair when he puts things on a just or equitable footing; he is candid when be looks impartially on both sides of a subject, doing justice especially to the motives and conduct of an opponent; he is open and frank when he declares his sentiments without reserve; he is ingenuous when he does this from a noble regard for truth. Fair dealing; candid investigation; an open temper; a frank disposition; an ingenuous answer or declaration.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. When you are candid about something or with someone, you speak honestly. I haven't been completely candid with him. ...a candid interview. = frank ADJ: oft ADJ about n, ADJ with n 2. A candid photograph of someone is one that was taken when the person did not know they were being photographed. ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Impartial, fair, just, unprejudiced, unbiassed. 2. Open, free, ingenuous, artless, frank, sincere, honest, plain, honorable, naïve, guileless, straightforward, open-hearted, frank-hearted, above-board.

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian, Spartan, aboveboard, accessible, all jaw, approachable, artless, ascetic, austere, authentic, bald, bare, bluff, blunt, bona fide, born yesterday, broad, brusque, card-carrying, chatty, childlike, common, commonplace, communicative, confiding, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, detached, dinkum, direct, disinterested, dispassionate, downright, dry, dull, effusive, equal, equitable, expansive, explicit, extroverted, fair, flip, fluent, following the letter, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting, free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, freehanded, gabby, garrulous, gassy, genuine, glib, good, gossipy, gregarious, guileless, gushy, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, honest, honest-to-God, impartial, impersonal, impromptu, inartificial, informal, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, just, lawful, lean, legitimate, lifelike, literal, lofty, long-winded, loquacious, matter-of-fact, multiloquent, multiloquious, naive, native, natural, naturalistic, neat, neutral, newsy, objective, open, openhearted, original, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, real, realistic, rightful, round, rustic, scrupulous, self-revealing, self-revelatory, selfless, severe, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, smooth, sober, sociable, spare, stark, sterling, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sure-enough, talkative, talky, transparent, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, trustful, trusting, truthful, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming, unbiased, unbigoted, uncalculated, uncalculating, unchecked, uncolored, unconcealed, unconcocted, unconstrained, uncontrived, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful, undeceiving, undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling, undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded, unhampered, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, uninfluenced, uninvented, unpoetical, unprejudiced, unpremeditated, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unromantic, unsecretive, unselfish, unshrinking, unsilent, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unsuppressed, unsuspicious, unswayed, unsynthetic, unvarnished, unwary, upright, verbal, verbatim, verbose, veridical, verisimilar, voluble, windy, word-for-word