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Legal Definition of bona fide. 1a : characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit a bona fide offer b : valid under or in compliance with the law retirement incentives made part of a bona fide employee benefit plan. 2 : made with or characterized by sincerity a bona fide belief.
Bona fide means in good faith in Latin. When applied to business deals and the like, it stresses the absence of fraud or deception. A bona fide sale of securities is an entirely aboveboard transaction. Outside of business and law, bona fide implies mere sincerity and earnestness.