true

Meanings

Adjective

• Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
• Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
• Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
• Loyal, faithful.
• Genuine; legitimate.
• Accurate; following a path toward the target.
• Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
• (Of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.

Adverb

• Accurately.
• Truthfully.

Noun

• The state of being in alignment.
• Truth.
• A pledge or truce.

Verb

• To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight).
• To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

Related

Opposite words

• false
• untrue

Origin

• From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou ("honest"), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg ("safe, secure’"), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- ("steady, firm") (compare Irish dearbh ("sure"), Old Prussian druwis ("faith"), Ancient Greek δροόν ("firm")), extension of *dóru. More at tree.
• For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus ("tough") from robur.