"truthful" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/ Audio: en-us-truthful.ogg Forms: more truthful [comparative], most truthful [superlative]
enPR: trōōth′fl Rhymes: -uːθfəl Etymology: From truth + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|truth|ful|pos=adjective}} truth + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} truthful (comparative more truthful, superlative most truthful)
  1. Honest, and always telling the truth. Translations (honest, and always telling the truth): صَادِق (ṣādiq) [masculine] (Arabic), честен (česten) (Bulgarian), правдив (pravdiv) (Bulgarian), pravdomluvný (Czech), rehellinen (Finnish), sincère (French), wahrheitsliebend (German), vernoi (Ingrian), sincero (Italian), vērax (Latin), vēridicus (Latin), prawdomówny (Polish), правди́вый (pravdívyj) (Russian), veraz (Spanish), sadıq (Zazaki)
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  2. Accurately depicting what is real. Translations (accurately depicting what is real): ճշմարտացի (čšmartacʻi) (Armenian), верен (veren) (Bulgarian), точен (točen) (Bulgarian), pravdivý (Czech), totuudenmukainen (Finnish), wahrheitsgemäß (German), wahrheitsgetreu (German), 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃 (sunjis) (Gothic), realista (Italian), правди́вый (pravdívyj) (Russian), fiel (Spanish), verídico [masculine] (Spanish), verífico [masculine] (Spanish), gerçekçi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-truthful-en-adj-eyUkViGe Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'accurately depicting what is real': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: veridical Derived forms: to be truthful, truthfully, truthfulness, untruthful
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "totuudenmukainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "wahrheitsgemäß"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "wahrheitsgetreu"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "sunjis",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "realista"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pravdívyj",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "правди́вый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "fiel"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verídico"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verífico"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "accurately depicting what is real",
      "word": "gerçekçi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "truthful"
}

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