plain fact, plain matter of fact; nature &c (principle) 5; truth,
verity; gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth; orthodoxy &c 983.1;
authenticity; veracity &c 543; correctness, correctitude†.
accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c adj.; precision,
delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork
precision &c (regularity) 80; conformity to rule; nicety.
orthology†; ipsissima verba [Lat.]; realism.
plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed
truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth;
nuda veritas [Lat.]; the very thing; not an illusion &c 495; real Simon
Pure; unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth; the truth the whole truth
and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
V. be true &c adj., be the case; sand the test; have the true ring;
hold good, hold true, hold water.
render true, prove true &c adj.; substantiate &c (evidence) 467.
get at the truth &c (discover) 480.1.
Adj. real, actual &c (existing) 1; veritable, true; right, correct;
certain &c 474; substantially true, categorically true, definitively
true &c; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious
&c 543; unreconfuted†, unconfuted†; unideal†, unimagined; realistic.
exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so,
so; strict, severe; close &c (similar) 17; literal; rigid, rigorous;
scrupulous &c (conscientious) 939; religiously exact, punctual,
mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious,
particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut.
verified, empirically true, experimentally verified,
substantiated, proven (demonstrated) 478.
rigorously true, unquestionably true.
true by definition.
genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodox &c 983.1; official, ex
officio.
pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated,
unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka†.
well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid;
undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic,
unflattering.
Adv. truly &c adj.; verily, indeed, really, in reality; with truth &c
(veracity) 543; certainly &c (certain) 474; actually &c (existence) 1;
in effect &c (intrinsically) 5.
exactly &c adj.; ad amussim [Lat.]; verbatim, verbatim et
literatim [Lat.]; word for word, literally, literatim [Lat.], totidem
vervis [Lat.], sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis
[Lat.]; ad unguem [Lat.]; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a
tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre [Fr.]; neither more nor
less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports [Fr.];
at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking.
Phr. the truth is, the fact is; rem acu tetigisti [Lat.]; en suivant la
verite [Fr.]; ex facto jus oritur [Lat.]; la verita e figlia del empo
[It]; locos y ninos dicen la verdad [Sp.], crazy people and children
tell the truth; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Lat.] [Cicero];
veritas nunquam perit [Lat.] [Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Lat.]
[Seneca]; the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; just
the facts, ma'am, just the facts [Dragnet].