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What is the adjective for truthiness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs true and truth which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

true
  1. (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
  2. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
  3. (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
  4. Loyal, faithful.
  5. Genuine.
  6. Legitimate.
  7. (aim) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
  8. (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “What had started as a pilgrimage would turn into an inquiry into the meaning of true religion.”
      “A friend who provides assistance in times of hardship is a true friend, indeed.”
      “Reports on the incident have been confirmed to be true.”
truthy
  1. (obsolete) Faithful; true. [19th c.]
  2. (US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts. [from 21st c.]
  3. (computing) Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Her truthy statement about the project's progress demonstrated her sincerity and commitment to providing accurate information based on factual evidence.”
      “Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.”
      “In JavaScript, as well as the true or false Boolean values, other types of variables can be said to be truthy or falsey.”
truthful
  1. Honest, and always telling the truth.
  2. Accurately depicting what is real.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Butterfield said he was describing the system in order to be truthful in his testimony, but that he was reluctant to discuss the matter.”
      “The task of literature was the truthful depiction of reality, based on the principles of verisimilitude and probability.”
      “Because so many of Ivy's letters remain unsent, addressed to dead or departed family members who will never read them, she is frank and truthful.”
truesome
  1. Marked by truth; truthful; honest; genuine
truthsome
  1. (rare) Marked by truth; actual; truthful
truthless
  1. Lacking truth, untruthful.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is, quite possibly, the most truthless statement ever made on the Internet.”
      “The young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them.”
      “The long conversations which he puts into their mouths are as truthless as they are tiresome.”
truismatic
  1. Relating to, or consisting of, truisms.
truthlike
truthward
  1. Leaning or leading toward truth
truistic
  1. Of or pertaining to truism.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “So determinism would simply be the theory, truistic to many, that brain events are effects.”
      “The general idea that human rights are derived from the dignity of the person is neither truistic nor neutral.”
      “But this sense is as truistic as that of the not dissimilar saying that every event has a cause.”
truthier
truthiest
truer
  1. comparative form of true: more true
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It's been said stroke play is a truer test of golf while match play is a truer test of character.”
      “Nowhere is this truer than in evaluating the impact of maternal exposures in pregnancy that may affect health of the fetus in later life.”
      “Never a truer word as, after a dog of a first half, the second period ran rampant on the back of abject defending.”
truest
  1. superlative form of true: most true
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They are artists in the truest sense of the word, sublimating their egos and committing themselves fully to the needs of the project.”
      “It would not be right to close a chapter about art in the digital era while neglecting the truest offspring of the new media.”
      “Sometimes jazz, sometimes classical, definitely crossover in the truest sense of the word.”
trued
  1. simple past tense and past participle of true
trueing
  1. present participle of true
truthed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of truth
truthing
  1. present participle of truth
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