truly

Adverb
  1. In accordance with truth or fact or reality (synset 400037620)
    "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"
    same as: genuinely, really
  2. By right (synset 400224480)
    "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"
    same as: rightfully
  3. With sincerity;
    Without pretense (synset 400380195)
    "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience"
    same as: sincerely, unfeignedly
  4. In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) (synset 400038407)
    "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"
    domain usage: intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
    same as: in truth, really

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