What does truthful mean?

Definitions for truthful
ˈtruθ fəltruth·ful

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. truthful, trueadjective

    expressing or given to expressing the truth

    "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"

  2. truthfuladjective

    conforming to truth

    "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement"

Wiktionary

  1. truthfuladjective

    Honest, and always telling the truth.

  2. truthfuladjective

    Accurately depicting what is real.

ChatGPT

  1. truthful

    Truthful means being honest, sincere, and free from deception or falsehood. It involves speaking or expressing the truth as one knows it and accurately representing facts or realities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Truthfuladjective

    full of truth; veracious; reliable

Editors Contribution

  1. truthful

    To express the truth.

    He was so truthful conversing with his wife.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 12, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of truthful in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of truthful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of truthful in a Sentence

  1. Jussie Smollett:

    I've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one, i would not be Chris Alexander if I was capable of doing what I was accused of.

  2. Ben Wizner:

    Never in the history of this country has a publisher been prosecuted for presenting truthful information to the public, any prosecution of WikiLeaks for publishing government secrets would set a dangerous precedent that the Trump administration would surely use to target other news organizations.

  3. Hillary Clinton:

    And as the FBI said, everything that I’ve said publicly has been consistent and truthful with what I’ve told [the FBI].

  4. Jussie Smollett:

    Ive been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. I would not be my mothers son if I was capable of one drop of what I had been accused of, this has been an incredibly difficult time -- honestly, one of the worst of my entire life. But I am a man of faith, and I am a man that has knowledge of my history. And I would not bring my family, our lives or the movement through a fire like this. I just wouldnt. Now, I would like nothing more than to just get back to work and move on with my life. But make no mistakes, I will always continue to fight for the justice, equality and betterment of marginalized people everywhere.

  5. Mick Fleetwood:

    Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

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