Synonyms for on the line
- candid
- earnest
- forthright
- genuine
- heartfelt
- outspoken
- real
- serious
- true
- trustworthy
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- faithful
- frank
- guileless
- honest to God
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no fooling
- no-nonsense
- on the level
- on up and up
- open
- plain
- pretensionless
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- square
- sure enough
- true-blue
- twenty-four carat
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- up-front
- wholehearted
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Antonyms for on the line
- counterfeit
- deceitful
- devious
- dishonest
- false
- flippant
- insincere
- invalid
- trivial
- unimportant
- unreal
- unserious
- untrustworthy
- tricky
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WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., "to tie with a cord," from line (n.). Meaning "to mark or mark off with lines" is from mid-15c. Sense of "to arrange in a line" is from 1640s; that of "to join a line" is by 1773. To line up "form a line" is attested by 1889, in U.S. football.
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