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Synonyms for truthful
ˈtruθ fəltruth·ful
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Wiktionary
truthfuladjective
Antonyms:
untruthfultruthfuladjective
Antonyms:
untruthfultruthfuladjective
Antonyms:
untruthful
English Synonyms and Antonyms
truthful
A candid statement is meant to be true to the real facts and just to all parties; a fair statement is really so. Fair is applied to the conduct; candid is not; as, fair treatment, "a fair field, and no favor." One who is frank has a fearless and unconstrained truthfulness. Honest and ingenuous unite in expressing contempt for deceit. On the other hand, artless, guileless, naive, simple, and unsophisticated express the goodness which comes from want of the knowledge or thought of evil. As truth is not always agreeable or timely, candid and frank have often an objectionable sense; "to be candid with you," "to be perfectly frank," are regarded as sure preludes to something disagreeable. Open and unreserved may imply unstudied truthfulness or defiant recklessness; as, open admiration, open robbery. There may be transparent integrity or transparent fraud. Sincere applies to the feelings, as being all that one's words would imply.
Synonyms:
aboveboard, artless, candid, fair, frank, guileless, honest, impartial, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, transparent, unbiased, unprejudiced, unreserved, unsophisticatedAntonyms:
adroit, artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, diplomatic, foxy, insincere, intriguing, knowing, maneuvering, sharp, shrewd, sly, subtle, tricky, wilyPreposition:
Candid in debate; candid to or toward opponents; candid with friend or foe; to be candid about or in regard to the matter.
Princeton's WordNet
truthful, trueadjective
expressing or given to expressing the truth
"a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"
Synonyms:
on-key, true(a), dependable, true(p), rightful(a), true, dead on target, honest, genuine, lawful, unfeigned, straight, reliableAntonyms:
false, mendacious, untruthfultruthfuladjective
conforming to truth
"I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement"
Synonyms:
trueAntonyms:
mendacious, false, untruthful
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
truthfuladjective
Synonyms:
veracious, undissembling, ingenuous, veridical
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#283 | open | |
#831 | true | |
#933 | simple | |
#1667 | fair | |
#1847 | correct | |
#2442 | straight | |
#2537 | frank | |
#3066 | accurate | |
#3639 | reliable | |
#5018 | genuine | |
#5698 | honest | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#7379 | transparent | |
#11047 | unbiased | |
#11925 | straightforward | |
#13668 | candid | |
#15441 | sincere | |
#15598 | lawful | |
#18407 | naive | |
#18426 | dependable | |
#19510 | impartial | |
#28112 | truthful | |
#69465 | unreserved | |
#78515 | unsophisticated | |
#106009 | artless | |
#140917 | ingenuous | |
#166083 | guileless | |
#176297 | unprejudiced | |
#218204 | unfeigned | |
#324207 | aboveboard | |
#324754 | veracious |
How to use truthful in a sentence?
Im sure there will be some questions we know the answers to, so well test him to see whether in fact hell be truthful this time.
I have said … that what I told the FBI, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what I have said publicly.
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.
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The many elected officials in Boston 2024's corner looked the other way for months, even when it became clear that Boston 2024 had been less than truthful about what it wanted from taxpayers, what those officials couldn't ignore was the real, credible threat of a binding vote, which is what ultimately led to the USOC pulling the bid.
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