adj
Meaning 1
Honest, and always telling the truth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- someone's truthful nature
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
truthful
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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trōōth′fl
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/ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
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rhymes with -uːθfəl
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CMU ARPABET: T R UW1 TH F AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Accurately depicting what is real.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: factual, veridical
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
expressing or given to expressing the truth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a true statement
- gave truthful testimony
- a truthful person
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: true
Antonyms: untruthful
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
conforming to truth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so
- a truthful statement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: صَادِق (ṣādiq) — honest, and always telling the truth
- Bulgarian: честен (česten) — honest, and always telling the truth
- Bulgarian: правдив (pravdiv) — honest, and always telling the truth
- Catalan: veraç — honest, and always telling the truth
- Catalan: sincer — honest, and always telling the truth
- Czech: pravdomluvný — honest, and always telling the truth
- Finnish: rehellinen — honest, and always telling the truth
- French: sincère — honest, and always telling the truth
- German: wahrheitsliebend — honest, and always telling the truth
- Ingrian: vernoi — honest, and always telling the truth
- Italian: sincero — honest, and always telling the truth
- Latin: vērax — honest, and always telling the truth
- Latin: vēridicus — honest, and always telling the truth
- Polish: prawdomówny — honest, and always telling the truth
- Russian: правди́вый (pravdívyj) — honest, and always telling the truth
- Spanish: veraz — honest, and always telling the truth
- Zazaki: sadıq — honest, and always telling the truth
- Armenian: ճշմարտացի (čšmartacʻi) — accurately depicting what is real
- Bulgarian: верен (veren) — accurately depicting what is real
- Bulgarian: точен (točen) — accurately depicting what is real
- Catalan: veraç — accurately depicting what is real
- Catalan: verídic — accurately depicting what is real
- Catalan: fidel — accurately depicting what is real
- Czech: pravdivý — accurately depicting what is real
- Finnish: totuudenmukainen — accurately depicting what is real
- German: wahrheitsgemäß — accurately depicting what is real
- German: wahrheitsgetreu — accurately depicting what is real
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃 (sunjis) — accurately depicting what is real
- Italian: realista — accurately depicting what is real
- Russian: правди́вый (pravdívyj) — accurately depicting what is real
- Spanish: fiel — accurately depicting what is real
- Spanish: verídico — accurately depicting what is real
- Spanish: verífico — accurately depicting what is real
- Turkish: gerçekçi — accurately depicting what is real
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