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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Consistently telling the truth; honest.
  • adjective Corresponding to reality; true.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of truth; habitually speaking the truth; veracious.
  • Conformable to truth; correct; true: as, a truthful statement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of truth; veracious; reliable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Honest, and always telling the truth.
  • adjective Accurately depicting what is real.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective conforming to truth
  • adjective expressing or given to expressing the truth

Etymologies

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From truth +‎ -ful.

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