See also: cândid

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From Latin candidus (white).

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

  1. Impartial and free from prejudice.
    Synonyms: unbiased, unprejudiced; see also Thesaurus:impartial
  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.

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Noun

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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.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French candide, from Latin candidus.

Adjective

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

  1. candid

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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