noun
- Proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment.
- usage: "out of true"
verb
- Make level, square, balanced, or concentric.
- usage: "true up the cylinder of an engine"
- synonyms: true up
adjective
- Consistent with fact or reality; not false.
- usage: "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"
- Accurately placed or thrown.
- usage: "his aim was true"; "he was dead on target"
- synonyms: dead on target
- Devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth.
- usage: "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
- Expressing or given to expressing the truth.
- usage: "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"
- synonyms: truthful
- Conforming to definitive criteria.
- usage: "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"
- Worthy of being depended on.
- usage: "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable sourcSFLe of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me"
- synonyms: dependable, honest, reliable
- Not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed.
- usage: "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"
- Rightly so called.
- usage: "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.
- usage: "true north is geographic north"
- Having a legally established claim.
- usage: "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"
- In tune; accurate in pitch.
- usage: "a true note"
- synonyms: on-key
- Accurately fitted; level.
- usage: "the window frame isn't quite true"
- synonyms: straight
adverb
- As acknowledged.
- usage: "true, she is the smartest in her class"
- synonyms: admittedly, avowedly, confessedly
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