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true
[ troo ]
adjective
- being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false:
a true story.
- real; genuine; authentic:
true gold; true feelings.
- sincere; not deceitful:
a true interest in someone's welfare.
Synonyms: honest
- firm in allegiance; loyal; faithful; steadfast:
a true friend.
Synonyms: steady, constant, staunch, trustworthy
- being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something:
the true meaning of his statement.
- conforming to or consistent with a standard, pattern, or the like:
a true copy.
- exact; precise; accurate; correct:
a true balance.
Synonyms: faithful
- of the right kind; such as it should be; proper:
to arrange things in their true order.
- properly so called; rightly answering to a description:
true statesmanship.
- legitimate or rightful:
the true heir.
- reliable, unfailing, or sure:
a true sign.
- exactly or accurately shaped, formed, fitted, or placed, as a surface, instrument, or part of a mechanism.
- honest; honorable; upright.
- Biology. conforming to the type, norm, or standard of structure of a particular group; typical:
The lion is a true cat.
- Animal Husbandry. purebred.
- Navigation. (of a bearing, course, etc.) determined in relation to true north.
- Archaic. truthful.
noun
- exact or accurate formation, position, or adjustment:
to be out of true.
- the true, something that is true; truth.
adverb
- in a true manner; truly; truthfully.
- exactly or accurately.
- in conformity with the ancestral type:
to breed true.
verb (used with object)
- to make true; shape, adjust, place, etc., exactly or accurately:
to true the wheels of a bicycle after striking a pothole.
- (especially in carpentry) to make even, symmetrical, level, etc. (often followed by up ):
to true up the sides of a door.
true
/ truː /
adjective
- not false, fictional, or illusory; factual or factually accurate; conforming with reality
- prenominal being of real or natural origin; genuine; not synthetic
true leather
- unswervingly faithful and loyal to friends, a cause, etc
a true follower
- ( as collective noun ; preceded by the )
the loyal and the true
- faithful to a particular concept of truth, esp of religious truth
a true believer
- conforming to a required standard, law, or pattern
a true fit
a true aim
- exactly in tune
a true note
- (of a compass bearing) according to the earth's geographical rather than magnetic poles
true north
- biology conforming to the typical structure of a designated type
sphagnum moss is a true moss, Spanish moss is not
- physics not apparent or relative; taking into account all complicating factors Compare apparent
the true expansion of a liquid takes into account the expansion of the container
- not true informal.unbelievable; remarkable
she's got so much money it's not true
- true to lifeexactly comparable with reality
noun
- correct alignment (esp in the phrases in true, out of true )
adverb
- truthfully; rightly
- precisely or unswervingly
he shot true
- biology without variation from the ancestral type
to breed true
verb
- tr to adjust so as to make true
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Derived Forms
- ˈtrueness, noun
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Other Words From
- trueness noun
- half-true adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of true1
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Idioms and Phrases
- come true, to have the expected or hoped-for result; become a reality:
She couldn't believe that her dream would ever come true.
More idioms and phrases containing true
- come true
- course of true love
- dream come true
- find true north
- hold good (true)
- ring false (true)
- run (true) to form
- too good to be true
- tried and true
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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