truthful

adj

Etymology: From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.

1. Honest, and always telling the truth.

   “someone's truthful nature”

   “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?”

2. Accurately depicting what is real.

   “He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.”

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