truthful
/ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
truthful adjective: honest, and always telling the truth.
Adjective
truthful (comparative more truthful, superlative most truthful)
- Honest, and always telling the truth.
- someone's truthful nature
- 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
- Accurately depicting what is real.
- He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.
- 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
truthful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
truthful in Hindi
- truthful, honest
- सच्चा saccā
- truthful
- वास्तविक vāstavik
truthful in Tamil
- சத்தியமானவர்
truthful in Marathi
- सत्यवादी
truthful in Urdu
- truthful, honest
- سچا saccā
- truthful
- ستیہ satya
More languagesFewer languages
- truthful in Bengali
- সত্যবাদী
- truthful in Malayalam
- നേർ nēṟ
- truthful in Kannada
- ಸತ್ಯವಂತರಾದವರು
- truthful in Punjabi
- سچا saccā
- truthful in Gujarati
- સત્યવાદી
- truthful in Odia
- ସତ୍ଯ଼ବାଦୀ
- truthful in Nepali
- सत्यवादी
- truthful in Arabic
- صَادِق ṣādiq
Examples of truthful in a sentence
- This grinchy pronouncement by the president had the value of being truthful.
- To be truthful, it felt like a bit of a blowoff.
- Truthful and transparent is great, but we don’t even have a coherent strategy to obfuscate.”
Synonyms of truthful
Antonyms
Forms of truthful
| comparative | more truthful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most truthful |
Origin of truthful
From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.
Words formed from truthful
Words that rhyme with truthful
Questions about truthful
- What does truthful mean?
- Truthful means honest, and always telling the truth.
- What is truthful in Hindi?
- Truthful in Hindi is सच्चा (saccā), वास्तविक (vāstavik). See Truthful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is truthful?
- Truthful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce truthful?
- Truthful is pronounced /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/.
Words near truthful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: truthful (page history and authors); वास्तविक (Hindi) (page history and authors); truthful (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); truthful (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ستیہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); truthful (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); നേർ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); truthful (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); سچا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); truthful (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); truthful (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); truthful (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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