truth

Roget-categorie 494

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
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#494. [Object of knowledge.] Truth

zelfstandig naamwoord

fact, reality etc. (existence) 1 — plain fact, plain matter of fact — nature etc. (principle) 5 — truth, verity — gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth — orthodoxy etc. 983.1; authenticity — veracity etc. 543 — correctness, correctitude^†.
accuracy, exactitude — exactness, preciseness etc. adj. — precision, delicacy — rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality — clockwork precision etc. (regularity) 80 — conformity to rule — nicety.
orthology^† — ipsissima verba [Lat.] — realism.
plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth — nuda veritas [Lat.] — the very thing — not an illusion etc. 495 — real Simon Pure — unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth — the truth the whole truth and nothing but the the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth — just the thing.

werkwoord

be true etc. adj., be the case — sand the test — have the true ring — hold good, hold true, hold water.
render true, prove true etc. adj. — substantiate etc. (evidence) 467.
get at the truth etc. (discover) 480.1.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

real, actual etc. (existing) 1 — veritable, true — right, correct — certain etc. 474 — substantially true, categorically true, definitively true &c. — true to the letter, true as gospel — unimpeachable — veracious etc. 543 — unreconfuted^†, unconfuted^† — unideal^†, unimagined — realistic.
exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so — strict, severe — close etc. (similar) 17 — literal — rigid, rigorous — scrupulous etc. (conscientious) 939 — religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific — faithful, constant, unerring — curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine — clean-cut, clear-cut.
verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated) 478.
rigorously true, unquestionably true.
true by definition.
genuine, authentic, legitimate — orthodox etc. 983.1; official, ex officio.
pure, natural, sound, sterling — unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored — in its true colors — pukka^†.
well-grounded, well founded — solid, substantial, tangible, valid — undistorted, undisguised — unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering.

bijwoord

truly etc. adj. — verily, indeed, really, in reality — with truth etc. (veracity) 543 — certainly etc. (certain) 474 — actually etc. (existence) 1 — in effect etc. (intrinsically) 5.
exactly etc. adj. — ad amussim [Lat.] — verbatim, verbatim et literatim [Lat.] — word for word, literally, literatim [Lat.], totidem vervis [Lat.], sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis [Lat.] — ad unguem [Lat.] — to an inch — to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T — au pied de la lettre [Fr.] — neither more nor less — in every respect, in all respects — sous tous les rapports [Fr.] — at any rate, at all events — strictly speaking.

uitdrukking

the truth is, the fact is — rem acu tetigisti [Lat.] — en suivant la verite [Fr.] — ex facto jus oritur [Lat.] — la verita e figlia del empo [It] — locos y ninos dicen la verdad [Sp.], crazy people and children tell the truth — nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Lat.] [Cicero]; veritas nunquam perit [Lat.] [Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Lat.] [Seneca]; the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth;" just the facts, ma'am, just the facts" [Dragnet].

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