'Bona fide' definitions:
Definition of 'bona fide'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Undertaken in good faith; "a bona fide offer"
adjective
Not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable]
Definition of 'Bona fide'
From: GCIDE
- Bona fide \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bona fide'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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