truthful en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
- trōōth′fl
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Etymology
From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.
Meanings
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Honest, and always telling the truth.
Mr. Musk was not being truthful, Mr. Rubio said. What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts?
2025 March 7, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, quoting Marco Rubio, “Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:someone's truthful nature
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Accurately depicting what is real.
He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation.
1850, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume III:He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more truthful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most truthful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
truthfulness · untruthful · truthfully · nontruthful · overtruthful · mistruthful · to be truthful
Synonyms
Translations (34)
pl prawdomówny (honest, and always telling the truth) · bg верен (accurately depicting what is real) · ru правди́вый (honest, and always telling the truth) · tr gerçekçi (accurately depicting what is real) · it sincero (honest, and always telling the truth) · ru правди́вый (accurately depicting what is real) · es fiel (accurately depicting what is real) · la vēridicus (honest, and always telling the truth) · ca verídic (accurately depicting what is real) · de wahrheitsgetreu (accurately depicting what is real) · es verídico (accurately depicting what is real) · ar صَادِق (honest, and always telling the truth) · bg точен (accurately depicting what is real) · ca veraç (accurately depicting what is real) · fi rehellinen (honest, and always telling the truth) · ca veraç (honest, and always telling the truth) · bg правдив (honest, and always telling the truth) · cs pravdivý (accurately depicting what is real) · fr sincère (honest, and always telling the truth) · de wahrheitsgemäß (accurately depicting what is real) · cs pravdomluvný (honest, and always telling the truth) · izh vernoi (honest, and always telling the truth) · got 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃 (accurately depicting what is real) · ca sincer (honest, and always telling the truth) · hy ճշմարտացի (accurately depicting what is real) · de wahrheitsliebend (honest, and always telling the truth) · la vērax (honest, and always telling the truth) · ca fidel (accurately depicting what is real) · zza sadıq (honest, and always telling the truth) · es veraz (honest, and always telling the truth) · es verífico (accurately depicting what is real) · bg честен (honest, and always telling the truth) · it realista (accurately depicting what is real) · fi totuudenmukainen (accurately depicting what is real)