ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsTtruthful
ISEE/SSATeasy
truthful
Meaning: honest and likely to say what really happened
truthful in a sentence
How truthful is used in real sentences:
Lena gave a truthful account of how the classroom window cracked.
The truthful witness admitted that she had not seen the entire science demonstration.
“Eliza found her truthful, too, since she reported both profits and costly accidents.”
— from the passage A Waterway Opens
Synonyms for truthful
Other words for truthful — honest, sincere and frank — carry the same meaning.
- honest
- sincere
- frank
Antonyms of truthful
Words that mean the opposite of truthful:
- dishonest
- deceitful
Where it comes from
From Old English triewð 'faithfulness' + full
Memory hook
A truthful answer is full of truth.