candid

See also: cândid

English

Etymology

From Latin candidus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.dɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ændɪd

Adjective

candid (comparative more candid or candider, superlative most candid or candidest)

1. Impartial and free from prejudice.

   Synonyms: unbiased, unprejudiced; see also Thesaurus:impartial

   • 1828, Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, […], →OCLC, book XII, page 269:

     He knew not where to look for faithful advice, efficient aid, or candid judgement.

   • 2018 January 21, Oli Smith, The Sunday Express:

     Asked about the Brexit vote, the candid president told Marr: «I am not the one to judge or comment on the decision of your people.»

2. Straightforward, open and sincere.

   Synonyms: frank, parrhesiastic, unreserved

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 29:

     “I know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough;—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone. […] ”

   • 1871, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, translation of original by Jules Verne:

     My candid opinion was that it was all rubbish!

   • 2023 November 18, Blake Montgomery, Dani Anguiano, “OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Sam Altman, the chief executive and co-founder of OpenAI, has been ousted from his own company after its board accused him of “being not consistently candid in his communications”.

3. Not posed or rehearsed.
   • 2002, Popular Photography:

     Will the introduction of supplementary flash or flood intrude on a candid picture situation or ruin the mood?

4. (obsolete) Bright; white.
   • 1717, Catcott, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Samuel Garth, Leonard Welsted, “Book XV”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 511:

     The Box receives all Black, but, pour'd from thence, / The Stones came candid forth; the Hue of Innocence.

Derived terms

• candid camera
• candidity
• candidly
• candidness
• supercandid
• uncandid

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to candid

• candela
• candelabrum
• candidate
• candle
• candlepower
• candlestick
• candor
• chandler
• chandlery

Translations

impartial and free from prejudice

• Bulgarian: непредубеден (bg) (nepredubeden), безпристрастен (bg) (bezpristrasten)
• Czech: přímý (cs) m, nestranný (cs), upřímný (cs) m
• Dutch: neutraal (nl), objectief (nl)
• Finnish: puolueeton (fi), varaukseton (fi)
• Galician: imparcial m or f
• German: unvoreingenommen (de), vorurteilsfrei, unparteiisch (de)
• Hebrew: אוביקטיבי (he) m (obyektivi)
• Hungarian: pártatlan (hu), elfogulatlan (hu)
• Macedonian: непри́страсен (neprístrasen), беспри́страсен (besprístrasen)
• Norwegian: fordomsfri, upartisk
• Persian: منصفانه (fa) (monsefâne)
• Portuguese: imparcial (pt)
• Russian: беспристрастный (ru) (bespristrastnyj), непредвзятый (ru) (nepredvzjatyj)

straightforward, open and sincere

• Bulgarian: искрен (bg) (iskren), честен (bg) (česten), откровен (bg) (otkroven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坦率 (zh) (tǎnshuài)

• Czech: přímý (cs) m, otevřený (cs) m
• Dutch: eerlijk (nl), spontaan (nl)
• Finnish: suora (fi), avoin (fi)
• French: sincère (fr)
• Galician: franco (gl) m
• German: freimütig (de), offenherzig (de), geradeheraus (de)
• Hebrew: כנה (he) m (kene)
• Macedonian: и́скрен (ískren), че́сен (čésen), о́творен (ótvoren)
• Norwegian: oppriktig
• Persian: رک (fa) (rok)
• Plautdietsch: frajch
• Portuguese: cândido (pt)
• Russian: открове́нный (ru) (otkrovénnyj), откры́тый (ru) (otkrýtyj), че́стный (ru) (čéstnyj), и́скренний (ru) (ískrennij)
• Spanish: franco (es), cándido (es)
• Swedish: uppriktig (sv)
• Thai: เปิดอก
• Ukrainian: відве́ртий (vidvértyj)

not posed or rehearsed

• Czech: upřímný (cs) m, nepřetvařující se, spontánní (cs), přirozený (cs) m
• Dutch: spontaan (nl)
• Finnish: spontaani (fi), välitön (fi)
• French: spontané (fr)
• Galician: espontáneo (gl) m
• German: ungestellt, spontan (de), nicht eingeübt
• Hungarian: spontán (hu), véletlenszerű (hu)
• Macedonian: при́роден (príroden), е́стествен (éstestven)
• Norwegian: oppriktig
• Portuguese: sincero (pt)
• Russian: есте́ственный (ru) (jestéstvennyj)

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Translations to be checked

• French: candide (fr)
• Ido: kandida (io)
• Italian: candido (it) m

Noun

candid (plural candids)

1. A spontaneous or unposed photograph.

   His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived.

   • 1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 137:

     When he held the Guild Chair, the office walls were not, as they are now, festooned with orchestrated candids of Chancre and municipal burghers, Chancre herding his porcine family in their Sunday best.

Derived terms

• plandid

Translations

A spontaneous or unposed photograph

• Finnish: salakuva
• Macedonian: слика (mk) f (slika), фо́тка f (fótka) фотогра́фија (mk) f (fotográfija)
• Russian: естественная (ru) (jestestvennaja) фотогра́фия (ru) f (fotográfija)

Further reading

• “candid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “candid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French candide, from Latin candidus.

Adjective

candid m or n (feminine singular candidă, masculine plural candizi, feminine and neuter plural candide)

1. candid

Declension

Declension of candid

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	candid		candidă		candizi	candide
	definite	candidul		candida		candizii	candidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	candid		candide		candizi	candide
	definite	candidului		candidei		candizilor	candidelor