English Dictionary

truthy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɹuːθi/

形容詞

廃用 アメリカ英語 口語

(obsolete) Faithful; true. / (US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.

日本語の意味

（古い意味で）忠実で真実な、誠実な / （米国口語で）表面的には真実だが、事実に基づかず直感的に真実と感じられる

The old knight remained truthy to his vows even when all others had forgotten.

老騎士は、他の者たちが皆忘れてしまったときでさえ、自分の誓いに忠実であり続けた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Faithful; true.

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

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(programming) 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.

truthier （ comparative ）

truthiest （ superlative ）