Meaning

(obsolete or humorous) Faithful; true..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete or humorous) Faithful; true.
2. (US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
3. (programming) Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.

Example Sentences

You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy.

Mindy Lahiri is never one to mince words, and most of the things that come out of her mouth are rife for a gospel. But her sheer overwhelming emotion at her doughnut craving is one of the truthiest truthisms she's ever truthed. Preach, girl.

Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.

In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that && does not always evaluate to true or false does not cause practical problems.

In JavaScript, as well as the true or false Boolean values, other types of variables can be said to be truthy or falsey.

To remember which values are truthy and which are falsey, just memorize the five falsey values - undefined, null, 0, "" and NaN -- and remember that everything else is truthy.

Clojure uses the Boolean operators or and and. or returns either the first truthy value or the last value, and returns the first falsey value or, if no values are falsey, the last truthy value.

Word Forms

• truthier
• truthiest

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Antonyms for truthy

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When Should You Use Truthy?

Use truthy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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