truly

  • (r) in accordance with truth or fact or reality
    • she was now truly American
    • a genuinely open society
    • they don't really listen to us
    genuinely, really,
  • (r) by right
    • baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime
    rightfully,
  • (r) with sincerity; without pretense
    • she praised him sincerely for his victory
    • was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher
    • we are truly sorry for the inconvenience
    sincerely, unfeignedly,
  • (r) in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
    • in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
    • really, you shouldn't have done it
    • a truly awful book
    in truth, really,

Synonyms

genuinely really rightfully sincerely unfeignedly in truth

Antonyms

insincerely

Words of close approximity

true
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