truth
- noun
- /truːθ/
- The foundational truth is the rule of law.
- tell the truth
- know the truth
- seek the truth
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Watch on YouTubeNow 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
How much something is shown or said to be true
A quality of being true and based on real information
How accurate something is compared with facts or a standard
The fact that something really exists
The degree to which something matches true information or real events
Being true and accurate about real facts
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A drug given to relax someone and make them more likely to say what they know
- Jargon
A time before buying when people search for information about a product
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'.