Meaning of BONA FIDE
| Pronunciation: | | 'bownu`fId
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- [adj] not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"
- [adj] undertaken in good faith; "a bona fide offer"
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| | Synonyms: | | authentic, echt, genuine, sincere, unquestionable, veritable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bo"na fi"de\ [L.]
In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or
really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you
must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.
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| | Related Terms: | | aboveboard, attested, authentic, candid, card-carrying, consistently, constantly, devotedly, dinkum, fair and square, faithfully, firmly, following the letter, foursquare, genuine, good, good-faith, honest, honest-to-God, in good faith, inartificial, indubitable, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loyally, natural, naturalistic, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, original, pure, real, realistic, responsibly, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, staunchly, steadfastly, steadily, sterling, straight, straight-shooting, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undoubted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, up-and-up, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, veritable, with good faith, word-for-word |
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