Meaning & use
candid
Honest and direct about what you think or know.
See it in a sentence
Please give me a candid assessment of the draft before I submit it.
In a candid conversation, the coach admitted that the plan had failed.
A note on using this word
Candid commonly describes a conversation, answer, or assessment. Honesty can be candid without being intentionally unkind.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
evasiveinsincere
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Showing people in a photograph without a deliberately arranged pose.
My favorite candid photo shows the band laughing between songs.
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