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16 Definitions of: true
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- adjective, not false, fictional, or illusory; factual or factually accurate; conforming with reality
- adjective, being of real or natural origin; genuine; not synthetic
- adjective, a) unswervingly faithful and loyal to friends, a cause, etc b) (as collective noun; preceded by the)
- adjective, faithful to a particular concept of truth, esp of religious truth
- adjective, conforming to a required standard, law, or pattern
- adjective, exactly in tune
- adjective, (of a compass bearing) according to the earth's geographical rather than magnetic poles
- adjective, biology conforming to the typical structure of a designated type
- adjective, physics not apparent or relative; taking into account all complicating factors. Compare apparent
- adjective, not true unbelievable; remarkable
- adjective, true to life exactly comparable with reality
- noun, correct alignment (esp in the phrases in true, out of true)
- adverb, truthfully; rightly
- adverb, precisely or unswervingly
- adverb, biology without variation from the ancestral type
- verb, to adjust so as to make true
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| Synonyms: | fast, real, authentic, faithful, reliable, honest, correct, right, accurate, exact | And more... |
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| Antonyms: | false, unfaithful, inaccurate |
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