true

Plural: trues

Noun

• proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment
  • "out of true"
• The state of being in alignment.
• Truth.
• A pledge or truce.

Verb

Verb Forms: trued, truing, trueing, trues

• To make accurate or align precisely with a standard.
• make level, square, balanced, or concentric
  • "true up the cylinder of an engine"
• To straighten (something that is supposed to be straight).
• To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust (often followed by up).

Adjective

• In accordance with fact or reality; accurate.
• consistent with fact or reality; not false; ; - B. Russell
  • "the story is true"
  • "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"
  • "the true meaning of the statement"
• expressing or given to expressing the truth
  • "a true statement"

Adjective Satellite

• accurately placed or thrown
  • "his aim was true"
• devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
  • "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
• conforming to definitive criteria
  • "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"
  • "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"
• worthy of being depended on
  • "he was true to his word"
  • "I would be true for there are those who trust me"
• not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
  • "true grief"
• rightly so called
  • "true courage"
  • "a spirit which true men have always admired"
  • "a true friend"
• determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
  • "true north is geographic north"
• having a legally established claim
  • "the true and lawful king"
• in tune; accurate in pitch
  • "a true note"
• accurately fitted; level
  • "the window frame isn't quite true"

Adverb

• as acknowledged
  • "true, she is the smartest in her class"

Adj

• Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
• Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
• As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
• Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
• Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
• Loyal, faithful.
• Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
• Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
• Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
• Accurate; following a path toward the target.
• Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
• Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
• based on actual historical events.

Adv

• Accurately; in alignment.
• Truthfully.

Examples

• "A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.
• a true copy
• a true likeness of the original
• He tried to ’true’ his tiles, but they just wouldn’t form the word he needed.
• He trued the spokes of the bicycle wheel.
• He’s turned out to be a true friend.
• Is my bike wheel true? It feels unsteady.
• It was a ’true’ play, confirmed by the dictionary, much to his opponent’s chagrin.
• The true bugs are those of the order Hemiptera; and, by some lights, most truly those of the suborder Heteroptera.
• The true king has returned!
• This gun shoots true.
• This is a true story.
• This is true Parmesan cheese — it is from the Parma region.
• true blusher (Amanita rubescens, as distinguished from the false blusher, Amanita pantherina)
• true crime
• true romance
• true sparrows (Passer)
• true spiders
• True, I have only read part of the book, but I like it so far.
• We spent all night truing up the report.

Synonyms

admittedly, avowedly, confessedly, dead on target, dependable, genuine, honest, lawful, on-key, reliable, rightful, straight, true up, truthful, unfeigned

Antonyms

false, untruthful, untrue

Related Words

truth

Anagrams of true