truthfully
/ˈtɹuːθ.fəl.i/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "He spoke truthfully."
- "The common gay does well being less concerned with joining the Great Gay Bandwagon […] and more concerned with living unostentatiously, honestly, truthfully, and quietly."
- "Truthfully, I didn't suspect a thing."
- "Truthfully, I was kind of average until my life went from snooze to snazztastic in about sixty seconds."
Etymology
Etymology tree English truthful Middle English -ly English -ly English truthfully From truthful + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more truthfully (comparative)
most truthfully (superlative)