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- pronunciation:
- tru
li
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adverb |
| definition 1: |
When you truly feel something, you really feel it. Your feeling is not false or artificial. If someone is truly a great writer, it is a fact they they are a great writer and there is no doubt about it.
Melanie is a truly good dancer. Someday she will become a professional.- synonyms:
- genuinely
- similar words:
- absolutely, certainly, clearly, really
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| definition 2: |
If someone speaks truly, they are not telling a lie, and they are saying exactly what they believe to be true.
The doctor spoke to the patient truly, because the patient asked him to give her the facts and not hide anything from her.- synonyms:
- truthfully
- similar words:
- correctly, exactly
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