Adjective: sincere
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | sincerer |
| Superlative | sincerest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sincere |
| Superlative | most sincere |
Sample Sentences
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I believe he is sincere in his offer to help.
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Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far. [1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 19:]
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My sincerest apologies to Brother Ron Smith in the December ish. [1967 June, Drake Maynard, If, volume 17, number 6, page 160:]
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If you choose to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere
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Do it somewhere far away from here [2003, “The Outsider”, performed by A Perfect Circle:]
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She gave it a sincere if misguided effort.
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The message that through sincere teshuvah and resolution, light and gladness can be achieved by all, is most fitting for the opening of the Yom Kippur service. [1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 161:]
Adjectives inflected like sincere
serene,
severe,
secure,
sedate,
wheelie,
simple,
complete,
fulsome,
sprightlie,
discrete,
plosive,
bizarre,
brusque,
brittle,
wholesome,
sincere,
shystie,
loveable,
prophane,
terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French sincere, from Latin sincerus (“genuine”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together”) (whence English sam) + *ḱer- (“grow”) (whence Latin Ceres, the goddess of harvest, etymon of cereal). Not from sine (“without”) + cera (“wax”), which is a folk etymology; see Wikipedia page. See: Latin Adjectives '
sincerus'.