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honiest

honiest is the superlative form of honey.

Meaning of honey

Adjective

honey (comparative honeyer or honier, superlative honeyest or honiest)

  1. Involving or resembling honey.
    • So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
    • Then I looked close at the scalp he stroked, which was of the silkiest blonde. For a moment I was sure it come from Olga’s dear head, and reckoned also he had little Gus’s fine skull-cover someplace among his filthy effects, the stinking old savage, living out his life of murder, rapine, and...1964, Thomas Berger, “My Indian Wife”, in Little Big Man, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →LCCN, page 214
  3. Honey-sweet.
    • But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]1876, Stephen J[oseph] Mac Kenna, Handfast to Strangers: A Novel, volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 137

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Forms of honiest

alternative formhoneyest

Questions about honiest

What is honiest the superlative form of?
Honiest is the superlative form of honey.

Words near honiest in the dictionary

  1. Honiara
  2. honie
  3. honied
  4. honier
  5. honies
  6. honiest
  7. Honiley
  8. honing
  9. honing in
  10. honing steel
  11. honing steels

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