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on the level

on the level prepositional phrase: honest(ly), sincere(ly), straightforward(ly), fair(ly).

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Honest(ly), sincere(ly), straightforward(ly), fair(ly).
    • He looks like a used car salesman, but he's really on the level, so you can trust him.
    • While I believe that the American people and the players want the game to be on the level, there are two or three things which, it strikes me, are not up to a high standard of honor.1912 August, Christy Mathewson, “Play Clean Ball”, in Boys' Life, page 7
  2. Synonym of on the square (“discreet reference to freemasonry”).
    Synonyms:
    on the square

on the level meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

on the level in Bengali

সৎ, আন্তরিক, স্পষ্ট, ন্যায্য

on the level in Malayalam

honest, genuine, straight
സത്യസന്ധമായ, യഥാർത്ഥമായ, അകൃത്രിമം, കലർപ്പില്ലാത്ത, നല്ല, അവ്യാജ

Synonyms of on the level

Antonyms

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Origin of on the level

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Questions about on the level

What does on the level mean?
On the level means honest(ly), sincere(ly), straightforward(ly), fair(ly).
What is on the level in Bengali?
On the level in Bengali is সৎ, আন্তরিক, স্পষ্ট. See On the level meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is on the level?
On the level is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the level in the dictionary

  1. on the ladder
  2. on the lam
  3. on the lamb
  4. on the lash
  5. on the latch
  6. on the level
  7. on the line
  8. on the lines of
  9. on the lookout
  10. on the loose
  11. on the low

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: on the level (page history and authors); on the level (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); on the level (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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