Definition of 'truly'

Adverb

1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"
      Synonyms: genuinely really
2. by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"
      Synonyms: rightfully
3. with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience"
      Synonyms: sincerely unfeignedly
      Antonyms: insincerely
4. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"
      Synonyms: in truth really

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