truth

== English == === Alternative forms === trewth (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true +‎ -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”). === Pronunciation === enPR: trōōth, IPA(key): /tɹuːθ/ Rhymes: -uːθ === Noun === truth (usually uncountable, plural truths) True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. The state or quality of being true to someone or something. (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity. (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality. (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom. (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark. (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth. ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:truth ==== Antonyms ==== falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed) (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully. c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. 2025 December 1, Jon Stewart, “Trump Berates Reporters, Gets Mystery MRI & Closes Border to (Non-White) Immigrants”[2], The Daily Show, Comedy Central: You were sitting with your family Thanksgiving, belly full of turkey and pie, surrounded by the love of your extended crime family, but your initial instinct was to truth a slur at Tim Walz? To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy. (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth. === See also === truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References === “truth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “truth”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Hurtt