truthful

B2
US /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
adj Freq #12844

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Honest, and always telling the truth.

    someone's truthful nature

  2. 2
    adj

    Accurately depicting what is real.

    He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.

  3. 3
    adj

    expressing or given to expressing the truth

  4. 4
    adj

    conforming to truth

Etymology

From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 adj · accurately depicting what... factualveridical
3 adj · expressing or given to... true
Opposites
untruthful
Word family
Derived forms truthfullytruthfulnessuntruthful

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