truly meaning and definition

TRULY adverb

Definition of truly (adverb)

1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality
   • "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"
   • synonyms: genuinely, really
2. by right
   • "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"
   • synonyms: rightfully
3. with sincerity; without pretense
   • "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience"
   • synonyms: sincerely, unfeignedly
   • antonym: insincerely
4. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
   • "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"
   • synonyms: in truth, really