truly

20 06 2008

Adverbs
1. (adv.) genuinely, really, truly;
  - in accordance with truth or fact or reality;
  - “she was now truly American”; “a genuinely open society”; “they don’t really listen to us”;

2. (adv.) rightfully, truly;
  - by right;
  - “baseball rightfully is the nation’s pastime”;

3. (adv.) sincerely, truly, unfeignedly;
  - 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”;

4. (adv.) in truth, really, truly;
  - 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”;

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