- honest-to-God
- Synonyms and related words: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
Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.