truth
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der.
Proto-Germanic *triwwiz
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Proto-Germanic *-iþō
Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō
Old English trēowþ
Middle English trouthe
English truth
Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Inflected forms:
form: truths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trewth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: truths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: truthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: truthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: truthed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: trewth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
gloss: Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
gloss: The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
gloss: Faithfulness, fidelity.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]
gloss: A pledge of loyalty or faith.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.
gloss: That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The truth is what is.
Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
gloss: Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
gloss: Topness; the property of a truth quark.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.
gloss: To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
You were sitting with your family Thanksgiving, belly full of turkey and pie, surrounded by the love of your extended crime family, but your initial instinct was to truth a slur at Tim Walz?
gloss: To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
pos: verb
examples: A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.
As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all.
This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed.
gloss: To tell the truth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
nonstandard
examples: You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
Synonyms: truth
straight goods
veraciousness
veracity
veridicality
verity
Antonyms: falsehood
falsity
lie
nonsense
drivel
untruth
half-truth
falseness
Related words: true
untrue
post-truth
Derived words: ain't that the truth
a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on
antitruth
bend the truth
biotruth
countertruth
economical with the truth
first truth
God honest truth
God's honest truth
God's truth
Gospel truth
gospel truth
grain of truth
ground truth
half-truth
hard truth
home truth
if truth be told
in truth
in wine, there is truth
it's the truth, Ruth
kernel of truth
live one's truth
mistruth
moment of truth
naked truth
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
nontruth
nugget of truth
of a truth
plain truth
post-truth
race of truth
ring of truth
semitruth
sneeze on the truth
speak truth to power
Spirit of Truth
stretch the truth
supertruth
talk truth to power
tell the truth
tell-truth
tell you the truth
there's a grain of truth in every joke
the truth is in the wine
to tell the truth
to tell you the truth
trickle truth
troof
truthaphobia
truthbearer
truth be told
truth bomb
truth book
truth commission
truth drug
truthen
truther
trutherism
truthful
truth function
truthify
truthiness
truthism
truth is stranger than fiction
truthless
truth lies at the bottom of a well
truthlike
truthly
truthmaker
truthmaking
truthness
truth nuke
truthology
truthophobia
Truth or Consequences
truth or dare
truth quark
truth quotient
truthseeker
truth serum
truthsome
truth squad
truth table
truthteller
truth-telling
truth to tell
truth tree
truth value
truthward
truthwards
truth will out
truth window
truthy
trvke
vacuous truth
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