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truthier

truthier is the comparative form of truthy.

Meaning of truthy

Adjective

truthy (comparative truthier, superlative truthiest)

  1. (humorous, obsolete) Faithful; true.
    • You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy.c. 1800, J. H. Colls, Theodore
    Synonyms:
    faithful, honest
  2. (US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
    • Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 595
  3. Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
    • In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that && does not always evaluate to true or false does not cause practical problems.2012, David Flanagan, JavaScript Pocket Reference, page 40
    Antonyms:
    falsy

Questions about truthier

What is truthier the comparative form of?
Truthier is the comparative form of truthy.

Words near truthier in the dictionary

  1. truthers
  2. truthful
  3. truthfully
  4. truthfulness
  5. truthfulnesses
  6. truthier
  7. truthiest
  8. truthified
  9. truthifies
  10. truthify
  11. truthifying

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