Entry Word: truthful

Function: adjective

Meaning: being in the habit of telling the truth <a truthful youngster who wouldnʼt just make up a story like that>

Synonyms honest, veracious

Related Words candid, frank, open, plainspoken; believable, credible, veritable, true; conscientious, moral, principled, scrupulous; dependable, reliable, trustworthy, trusty

Near Antonyms fallacious, false, untrue; unbelievable, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy; bluffing, dissembling, dissimulating, duplicitous, equivocating, hypocritical, insincere, posing, pretending; artful, deceitful, deceptive, devious, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily

Antonyms dishonest, fibbing, lying, mendacious, prevaricating, untruthful