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truthful

adj
/ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/

Etymology

From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.

  1. derived from trouþeful

Definitions

  1. Honest, and always telling the truth.

    • someone's truthful nature
    • 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?

  2. Accurately depicting what is real.

    • He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.
    • He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation.

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Derived

to be truthful, truthfully, truthfulness, untruthful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at truthful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01truthful02truth03reality04real05sincere06truly07truthfully

A definitional loop anchored at truthful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at truthful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA