truly
20 06 2008Adverbs
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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