Truthful Meaning
/ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHonest, and always telling the truth.
adjAccurately depicting what is real.
Sentence Examples
I don't think he is truthful.
His report was truthful.
She brought up her children to be truthful.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The lawyer asked for a ____ answer from the client because the case depended on accurate information.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The witness provided a very ____ account of exactly what she saw during the incident earlier this afternoon today.
Word Origin & History
From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The lawyer asked for a ____ answer from the client because the case depended on accurate information.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The witness provided a very ____ account of exactly what she saw during the incident earlier this afternoon today.