'honest-to-God' definitions:
Definition of 'honest-to-god'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" [syn: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure- enough(a)]
Synonyms of 'honest-to-God'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- actual,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- de facto,
- dinkum,
- factual,
- following the letter,
- for real,
- genuine,
- good,
- historical,
- honest,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- positive,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- substantial,
- sure-enough,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeniable,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- veritable,
- word-for-word