Roget's Thesaurus

#494. Truth

Nouns

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. 983a; 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 truth; just the thing.

Verbs

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) 480a.

Adjectives

real, actual etc. (existing) 1; veritable, true; right, correct; certain etc. 474; substantially true, categorically true, definitively true etc.; 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. 983a; 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.

Adverbs

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.

Phrases

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 truth; just the facts, ma'am, just the facts [Dragnet].