Nope they are exact opposites. Devious means to be sneaky and dishonest. Honest means to be true and straightforward.
The word honest is an adjective meaning truthful, moral, or fair. The noun form is honesty. The related adverb is honestly.
Being genuine and being honest are closely related but not necessarily the same. Genuine typically refers to being authentic, sincere, and true to oneself, while being honest specifically pertains to telling the truth and not being deceptive. Someone can be genuine without always being honest, and vice versa.
The verb form for honest is "to be honest."
The comparative degree of the word "honest" is "more honest."
What sense of the word honest are you planning on using? An honest lawyer could be crooked, an honest weight could be fraudulent, honest reporting could be disingenuous, honest wages could be unfair or inequitable, honest folk could be pretentious, an honest critique could be insincere, an honest answer could be deceptive
Honest is a synonym of Candid, just as Deceitful is a synonym of Devious. Other synonyms of devious include: sneaky, fraudulent, shrewd, sly, wily among others.
shifty
Unscrupulous, treacherous and lying are words meaning devious.
It doesn't mean either. It means sneaky.
sly
devious root = via = road/way de = prefix meaning away vi = from the root via meaning road/way ous = suffix meaning full of
a honest word that starts with y
The Latin word in Pravum, meaning devious, bad, crooked, faulty, misshapen, deformed, perverse, vicvious or corrupt. Another word, Devius is acceotable
he is a little devious boy
not honest
Who's that casting devious stares in my direction? :)
Deceitful and sneaky are synonyms for devious.