| 单词 | truly |
| 释义 | truly (once / 100 pages) adv Truly is an adverb that means "in truth" or "really." You would say, "That is truly beautiful" or "It was truly a beautiful wedding." When you're truly sick, you're really sick. When you're truly sorry, you're sincerely sorry. A truly odd story is extremely strange or bizarre. A truly scary movie is terrifying. This word has to do with things that are actually or absolutely so. It's also used as a closing in letters. Instead of "Sincerely" or "Sincerely yours," many people write, "Yours truly" or "Very truly yours." The idea is: "I really mean this; you can trust me." WORD FAMILYtrue: trued, truely, trueness, truer, trues, truest, truing, truism, truly, truth, untrue+/truism: truisms/truth: truthful, truths, untruth/truthful: truthfulest, truthfully, truthfulness, untruthful/untrue: untruely, untruest, untruly/untruth: untruths/untruthful: untruthfully, untruthfulness USAGE EXAMPLESIt is truly enormous; from the tall observation tower, the ranks of black panels stretch almost to the horizon. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) The Protestant pastor says he believes in a larger meaning of civility, a definition that captures a truly civil approach to social justice. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Such resignation points to the reform that is truly needed. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adv in accordance with truth or fact or reality she was now truly American Syn genuinely, really 2adv by right Syn rightfully 3adv with sincerity; without pretense we are truly sorry for the inconvenience Syn|Ant sincerely, unfeignedly insincerely without sincerity 4adv in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) a truly awful book Syn in truth, really |
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