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truth

Meaning in simple English

US /truːθ/

truth means: What agrees with the facts or with what really happened.

noun

WHAT IS TRUEA2

What agrees with the facts or with what really happened.

  • Please tell me the truth.
  • He hid the truth about his past.
  • There was little truth in the rumours.

How to use it: the truth about someone/something (We finally learned the truth about the accident.); there is truth in something (There is some truth in what she says.)

Similar words: reality, fact

Opposites: falsehood, lie

Common phrases: tell the truth, the whole truth, discover the truth, truth about something

FAITHFULNESSC2

Being faithful to a person, belief, or your own feelings.

  • Her truth to her beliefs never weakened.
  • The story praises his truth to an old friend.
  • For the poet, truth to oneself mattered more than praise.

How to use it: truth to someone/something (The poem celebrates her truth to her own ideals.)

Similar words: faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty

Opposites: unfaithfulness, disloyalty

Common phrases: truth to oneself, truth to someone, truth to principles

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