Search the Dictionary

Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.

Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact. -- Un*truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*truth"ful*ness, n.

Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.

The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.

probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. ii. 2.

The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of Ant: affirmation. Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay. Rogers.

Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. [Archaic] -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. [Archaic] "In very soothfastness." Chaucer. Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience! Sir W. Scott.

Truthful; likely; probable. [R.] "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.

To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.

Want of veracity; untruthfulness; as, unveracity of heart. Carlyle.

Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian. The Spirit is most perfectly and absolutely veracious. Barrow.

The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.

Truth-telling; truthful; veracious. [R.] Carlyle.

Speaking truth; truthful. [Obs.]