Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Truly   /trˈuli/   Listen
Truly

adverb
1.
In accordance with truth or fact or reality.  Synonyms: genuinely, really.  "A genuinely open society" , "They don't really listen to us"
2.
By right.  Synonym: rightfully.
3.
With sincerity; without pretense.  Synonyms: sincerely, unfeignedly.  "Was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher" , "We are truly sorry for the inconvenience"
4.
In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers).  Synonyms: in truth, really.  "Really, you shouldn't have done it" , "A truly awful book"






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Truly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Listen, dear. Now, we've got to use our wits and all pull together. Of course we'd do anything in the world rather than see you—left to outsiders. I've never seen your uncle as worried, and—truly, Madeline, as sad. Oh, my dear, it's these human things that count! What would life be without the love ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell

... to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... on deck, forgetting past dangers in the more terrifying one before us. The captain had spoken truly: not a breath of air stirred, and the sea lay beneath us like a sheet of glass. The dark clouds had rolled away, and though the sun was not visible, the thin haze between us and the sky was tinged blood-red. It was such a sight ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens

... us, As a cross nurse might do a wayward child, From all our toys and baubles—the rough call Unlooses all our favourite ties on earth: And well if they are such as may be answered In yonder world, where all is judged of truly." ...
— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar

... Adrian, a man of the most shrewd practical intellect, and from the circumstances of his life, of the deepest experience in human nature, saw clearly enough then,—what continues to be seen so clearly by men of his stamp now,—that Ireland could never truly prosper, so long as left to her own management, by reason of the incurable defect mentioned above; and that, therefore, to sanction her sisterly, not her slavish connection, with a nation like the English, so eminent for those very qualities of order ...
— Pope Adrian IV - An Historical Sketch • Richard Raby


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com