truth
- noun
- /truːθ/
- The foundational truth is the rule of law.
- tell the truth
- know the truth
- seek the truth
Now it's the left who can't take the truth about Islam.
- Now it's the left who can't take the truth about Islam.
- We don't, we don't know the truth from revelation.
- And you get to find out the truth together.
- If now, this noon, we look again at the written truth, what happens?
- But there's wisdom and truth in all of that.
- It's a lie in service of truth, a crazy mistake.
- Of course, facts and truth are not the same.
- And that made me laugh because the truth is it probably was.
- We don't just need a system in which truth competes with untruth.
- Like we're like, like a world where the truth is really clear.
- I'm looking for that truth that you're real.
Examples
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She finally admitted the truth about her mistake in front of the team.
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I think there may be some truth in what he says.
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"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
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There was more than a little bit of truth in her response.
Academic text (2011) -
Of course, facts and truth are not the same.
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You all know the truth.
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Embrace that truth because truth will bring about change.
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The truth about what's going on here.
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One does not have to be a historian to realize the truth in those words.
Academic text (2011) -
The truth will come out, and people will know my friend Jack wasn't a lunatic.
Synonyms
Something that can be shown to be true, not an opinion
The way things really are, not how we imagine or wish
How close a measurement or statement is to the correct value
A quality that shows something is real and believable to people
Being honest and not telling lies
The state of being real rather than possible
A state of being accurate and matching facts or rules
A fact that is completely true and cannot be doubted
A true idea or belief that people accept as important
Being correct or true according to the facts
How often a computer program's answers are accurate and not wrong
A quality of being true and based on real information
How much something is shown or said to be true
Being true and accurate about real facts
How accurate something is compared with facts or a standard
The degree to which something matches true information or real events
The fact that something really exists
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A drug given to relax someone and make them more likely to say what they know
How True
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word truth comes from an old English word true, which meant 'faithful' or 'trustworthy'. That is why truth is a fact you can trust as 'real'.