truly
Adverb
- In a truthful manner; genuinely or sincerely.
- in accordance with truth or fact or reality
- "she was now truly American"
- by right
- with sincerity; without pretense
- "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience"
- in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
- "a truly awful book"
Adv
- In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
- Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
- Very.
Examples
- He ’truly’ believed his obscure word was valid, but the dictionary proved otherwise.
- That is truly all I know.
- Truly, that is all I know.
- You are truly silly.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English truely, treuly, treuli, trewely, treoweliche, treowliche, from Old English trēowlīċe (“faithfully; truly”), equivalent to true + -ly. Cognate with Dutch trouwelijk, Middle Low German truwlike, German treulich, Swedish trolig, Icelandic trygglega.
Synonyms
genuinely, in truth, really, rightfully, sincerely, unfeignedly, actually, exceedingly, extremely, frankly, honestly, in point of fact, literally, very
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
truly: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtruly: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
truly: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary