1. (

• truly ,
• genuinely ,
• really ,

) in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" ;

2. (

• rightfully ,
• truly ,

) by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" ;

3. (

• sincerely ,
• unfeignedly ,
• truly ,

) with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" ;

4. (

• in_truth ,
• really ,
• truly ,

) in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" ;