1 ~ (about sth) (of a person) saying only what is true:
They were less than truthful about their part in the crime. * Are you being completely truthful with me? * To be quite truthful with you, I'm not very keen on this colour. * a truthful child / witness
2 (of a statement) giving the true facts about sth:
a truthful answer
OPPUNTRUTHFUL
truthfully adverb:
She answered all their questions truthfully. * I can truthfully say that I have never seen anything quite like it before.
truthfulness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for truthful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is truthful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, truthful is tagged as adjective.
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