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truthy

/ˈtɹuːθi/ UK

Rhymes with -uːθi

Where it comes from

From truth + -y. In colloquial sense, back-formation from truthiness.

adjective truthier · truthiest

humorous, obsolete Faithful; true. You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy.
Similar: faithful, honest
US, colloquial Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts. Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.
Similar: truthlike, truthful, truthsome, veridical
Evaluating to true in a Boolean context. 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.
Opposite: falsy

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@misc{truthy_2026,
  title = {truthy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/truthy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}