truth
IPA: trˈuθ
noun
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
- (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
- To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
- (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
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Examples of "truth" in Sentences
- They tweaked the truth or the fact.
- The truth is, the pizzas were real.
- Truth and fact are not always congruous.
- It is wordy to qualify the truth of every fact.
- His object is the attainment of truth in matters of fact.
- So the real truth of the matter is kind of murky at this point.
- But the terrifying truth is in fact, the creatures really do exist.
- In this case the obvious and real truth is staring us all in the face.
- Do the facts of the trials and the truth of events immediatly cease to be
- In fact, there is no objective reason to impute any truth to the allegation.