truthy
/ˈtɹuːθi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
American usage; Colloquial
adj
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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈtɹuːθi/
Usage
- Humorous
- Obsolete
- American usage
- Colloquial