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発音

• enPR: trōōth′fl, IPA: /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
• 韻: -uːθfəl

形容詞

truthful (comparative more truthful, superlative most truthful)

1. Honest, and always telling the truth.

   someone's truthful nature

   • 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:

     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.

   Synonyms: factual, veridical

   He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.

   • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume III:

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

反意語

• untruthful

派生語

• to be truthful
• truthfully
• truthfulness
• untruthful