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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.
Synonyms: ,
- real; genuine; authentic:
true gold; true feelings.
- sincere; not deceitful:
a true interest in someone's welfare.
Synonyms:
- firm in allegiance; loyal; faithful; steadfast:
a true friend.
Synonyms: , , ,
- 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:
- 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
/ ٰː /
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
Derived Forms
- ˈٰܱԱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ٰܱn noun
- -ٰܱ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of true1
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
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Black music is so relentlessly true to itself when you look away from the trappings of industry, it’s the closest estimation we have of utopia.
While that’s not strictly true — about half the 17-song set draws from 2020’s "Rough and Rowdy Ways" — that is a lot from a man who isn’t fond of talking much onstage these days.
You are, after all, putting your trust in criminals to be true to their word.
It’s not just that the New York Times readers are more liberal than the overall population — that’s definitely true.
Reports that the White House may propose nearly a 50% cut to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate are both mind-boggling and, if true, nothing short of disastrous.
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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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