what does truly mean?
TRULY as ADVERB
- Meaning
- in accordance with truth or fact or reality
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- she was now truly American
- a genuinely open society
- they don”t really listen to us
Pertainym(s)
- Meaning
- in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
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- in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
- really, you shouldn”t have done it
- a truly awful book
- Meaning
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- baseball rightfully is the nation’’s pastime
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- Meaning
- with sincerity
- without pretense
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- she praised him sincerely for his victory
- was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher
- we are truly sorry for the inconvenience
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