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English adverb: truly | |||
| 1. | truly in accordance with truth or fact or reality | ||
| Samples | She was now truly American. A genuinely open society. They don't really listen to us. | ||
| Synonyms | genuinely, really | ||
| 2. | truly by right | ||
| Samples | Baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime. | ||
| Synonyms | rightfully | ||
| 3. | truly with sincerity; without pretense | ||
| Samples | She praised him sincerely for his victory. Was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher. We are truly sorry for the inconvenience. | ||
| Synonyms | sincerely, unfeignedly | ||
| Antonyms | insincerely | ||
| 4. | truly in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) | ||
| Samples | In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire. Really, you shouldn't have done it. A truly awful book. | ||
| Synonyms | in truth, really | ||
| Domain usage | intensifier, intensive | ||
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