truth
noun · verb
Simple meaning
True facts, genuine depiction or statements.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
troothIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈtɹuθ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
Conformity to reality or actuality
“They debated the truth of the proposition.”
The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
countable
Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
The quality of being near to the true value
verb
To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner (estimated)
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- General English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: Conformity to reality or actuality
Used this way, truth is a common word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
“They debated the truth of the proposition.”
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Usage note
It most often appears in the pattern “truth of …”, which is worth copying when you use it.
Natural pattern: truth of …
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use truth
- “They debated the truth of the proposition.”noun
- “At last he knew the truth.”noun
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
Related forms, grouped by how they connect.
Word family
Words built from the same root.
Expressing or given to expressing the truth.
With truth.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
An intravenous anesthetic drug that has a hypnotic effect.
An intravenous anesthetic drug that has a hypnotic effect.
A hypothetical quark with a charge of +2/3 and a mass more than 100,000 times that of an electron.
The moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull.
An assumption that is basic to an argument.
A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world.
Related Words
Connected to the same idea, not synonyms.
- falseadjective
- trueadjective
- beliefnoun
- propositionnoun
- statementnoun
More about this wordSynonyms, forms, origin
Synonyms
Sense: true facts or genuine depiction or statements of reality
Antonyms
Sense: true facts or genuine depiction or statements of reality
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