truthful

comparative more truthful · superlative most truthful

1. Honest, and always telling the truth.

   someone's truthful nature

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   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?

   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

2. Accurately depicting what is real.

   He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.

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

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

   Synonyms: factual, veridical