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truthless

truthless adjective: lacking truth, untruthful.

Adjective

truthless (comparative more truthless, superlative most truthless)

  1. Lacking truth, untruthful.

Forms of truthless

comparativemore truthless
superlativemost truthless

Origin of truthless

From Middle English trewðeleas, equivalent to truth + -less. Piecewise doublet of trothless.

Words formed from truthless

Questions about truthless

What does truthless mean?
Truthless means lacking truth, untruthful.
What part of speech is truthless?
Truthless is an adjective.

Words near truthless in the dictionary

  1. truthifying
  2. truthiness
  3. truthing
  4. truthism
  5. truthisms
  6. truthless
  7. truthlessly
  8. truthlessness
  9. truthlike
  10. truthlikeness
  11. truthly

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