Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Truth (Object of knowledge)

Nouns
  • fact, reality etc. (existence) Existence
  • plain fact, plain matter of fact
  • nature etc. (principle) Intrinsicality
  • truth, verity
  • gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth
  • orthodoxy etc. [Religious Knowledge.] Theology.Existence
  • authenticity
  • veracity etc. Veracity
  • correctness, correctitude. accuracy, exactitude
  • exactness, preciseness etc. adj.
  • precision, delicacy
  • rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality
  • clockwork precision etc. (regularity) Normality
  • conformity to rule
  • nicety. orthology
  • realism. plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth
  • the very thing
  • not an illusion etc. Error
  • real Simon Pure
  • unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth
  • the truth the whole truth and nothing but the the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
  • just the thing.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • real, actual etc. (existing) Existence
  • veritable, true
  • right, correct
  • certain etc. Certainty
  • substantially true, categorically true, definitively true etc.
  • true to the letter, true as gospel
  • unimpeachable
  • veracious etc. Veracity
  • unreconfuted, unconfuted
  • unideal, unimagined
  • realistic. exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so
  • strict, severe
  • close etc. (similar) Similarity
  • literal
  • rigid, rigorous
  • scrupulous etc. (conscientious) Probity
  • 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) Demonstration. rigorously true, unquestionably true. true by definition. genuine, authentic, legitimate
  • orthodox etc. [Religious Knowledge.] Theology.Existence
  • 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.
Adverbs
  • truly etc. adj.
  • verily, indeed, really, in reality
  • with truth etc. (veracity) Veracity
  • certainly etc. (certain) Certainty
  • actually etc. (existence) Existence
  • in effect etc. (intrinsically) Intrinsicality. exactly etc. adj.
  • verbatim
  • word for word, literally, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse
  • to an inch
  • to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T
  • neither more nor less
  • in every respect, in all respects
  • at any rate, at all events
  • strictly speaking.
Phrases
  • the truth is, the fact is
  • crazy people and children tell the truth
  • the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
  • " just the facts, ma'am, just the facts" [Dragnet].