Word Finder - truer

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(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.

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This is a true story.

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Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.

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a true copy;   a true likeness of the original

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Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.

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"A and B" is true if and only if "A" is true and "B" is true.

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Loyal, faithful.

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He’s turned out to be a true friend.

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Genuine; legitimate.

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The true king has returned!

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Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.

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true blusher (Amanita rubescens, as distinguished from the false blusher, Amanita pantherina)

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(of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.

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Fair, unbiased, not loaded.

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(Of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.

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true crime

It was a signature day in Ouray, better than the best of the area's finest painted or photographed images with the sky so blue, the pines so green and the snow so white, you couldn't paint truer colors with an art store's inventory.

No one shows truer courage, not marred by irreverence, in confronting the great problems of human destiny, or greater strength in triumphing over human weakness.

A truer continuator of Leibnitz in the spirit was Herbart.

A truer estimate is that of Sainte-Beuve, her intimate friend for more than thirty years, but never her lover.

The Liberal party, which now came into control in the college repeatedly disappointed the hopes of Cotton Mather that he might be chosen president, and by its ecclesiastical laxness and its broader views of Church polity forced the Mathers to turn from Harvard to Yale as a truer school of the prophets.

Nothing finer or truer could be said.

Theodorus, held even more strongly that passing pleasure may be a delusion, and that permanent tranquillity is a truer end of conduct.

The original deists displayed a singular incapacity to understand the true conditions of history; yet amongst them there were some who pointed the way to the truer, more generous interpretation of the past.

In the course of that exile the traces of Semitic or Mahommedan influence gradually faded away, and the last of the line of Saracenic thinkers was a truer exponent of the one philosophy which they all professed to teach than the first.

Even in so important a matter as the great conflict between Persia and Greece it has been suggested more than once that we should be able to gain a much truer view were Persian as well as Greek accounts accessible.

This act of ordaining ministers, probably after the Genevan order - which they certainly used from May 1568 - and their excommunication of certain deserters from their " church " (so Grindal), clearly mark the fact that this body of some 200 persons had now deliberately taken up a position outside the national church, as being themselves a " church " in a truer sense than any parish church, inasmuch as they conformed to the primitive pattern.

Maxims of criticism to which we may here refer are that "harder readings are better than easier" and that "the shorter reading is generally the truer."

His verse, though in form inferior to his prose, was perhaps a truer expression of his genius.

Nowhere is this truer than in the small, egalitarian, formerly ethnically homogeneous states of Sweden and Denmark.

The panels contained three or four cells each, and remain truer to Fleming's original literary tails than the later cinematic outings.

But after all the misinterpretation of contemporaries and the destructive criticism of later times, the book as a whole leaves upon us an impression of peculiar strength and charm, and imparts a sense of the relations of things truer, because less mechanical, than the laboured reasoning of smaller men.

Throughout the middle ages, however, the original official and personal connotation of the title was never wholly lost; or perhaps it would be truer to say, with Selden, that it was early revived with the study of the Roman civil law in the 12th century.

While designer labels are often more expensive, they do tend to fit better and truer.

Serengeti's patented "Spectral Control System" selectively filters the various wavelengths of light, giving truer, clearer color perception.

The movements are realistic, but more falling could have made it a truer experience.

While a truer video game, the action was actually indicated by a number of lights that only turned on and off signifying what was going on.

Too often people wonder if they are projecting their own feelings, this is even truer when some people believe they can't possibly be attractive.

Nowhere is this truer than when you are starting out in the field.

That's become even truer now that the duffle bags have a backpack component.

What might appear to be opposing viewpoints to others simply appear to Aquarius as bridges for discovering truer insights and knowledge.

With such a great legacy comes the inevitable accessorizing, and nothing could be truer in Honda's case.

A table lamp or floor lamp is fine, but if you can afford to invest in a natural sunlight lamp, the colors will be truer and you will have less eye strain.

These steps are easy and while the results aren't as accurate as those achieved by a professional, they do give you a truer grasp on where you stand regarding body fat in relation to your size and build.

This is even truer when it comes to silk nightgowns.

Pavement once wisely sang, "hey, you've got pay your dues before you pay the rent," and truer words were never spoken.

Over against this " valid " mechanism, in some truer but vaguer region, Kant placed free will; and so left things.

Moreover, every Norman to whom he granted lands and offices held them by English law in a much truer sense than the king held his; he was deemed to step into the exact position of his English predecessor, whatever that might be.

This same magnanimity towards the survivors of Saul's house has left its mark upon many of the narratives, and helps to a truer understanding of the stories of his early life.

It would be almost truer, though only half the truth, to say that the clergy gave the name of Crusade to sanctify interests and ambitions which, while set on other ends than those of the Church, happened to coincide in their choice of means.

No one shows a truer humanity and a more tender sympathy with natural sorrow.

The untrustworthiness of Chronicles - briefly admitted by Luther - he proved in detail, and so cleared the way for that truer view of the history and religion of Israel which the treatment of Chronicles as a trustworthy record of the past hopelessly obscured.

The lower limit is therefore a truer division line to-day.

Morgan "seems to have discerned the dawning of a truer and better method" than the others.

No crusade ever had a truer laureate than the author of " The Virginia Slave Mother," " The Pastoral Letter " - one of his stinging ballads against a time-serving Church- " A Sabbath Scene," and " The Slaves of Martinique."

No act of his life was a truer proof of statesmanship. He failed.

There is no doubt much of valuable suggestion to be found in the philosophic system, or rather the conglomerate of systems, which pass to-day under the name of theosophy; and probably much has been done by means of its propaganda to popularize Eastern thought in the West, and in the East to reawaken a truer appreciation of its own philosophic treasures; but however that may be, the serious student would be well advised to seek his information and his inspiration from the fountain-heads of the theosophists' doctrines, which are all easily accessible in translations; and to avoid the confusions and errors of writers who in most cases have but a superficial if any knowledge of the original languages and systems from which their doctrine has been arbitrarily culled.

I have read that the English and Americans are cousins; but I am sure it would be much truer to say that we are brothers and sisters.

Undoubtedly, in this case, what is true for one is truer still for a thousand, as a large house is not proportionally more expensive than a small one, since one roof may cover, one cellar underlie, and one wall separate several apartments.

Nothing is truer or sadder.

Nowhere does the old adage "less is more" ring truer than when it comes to learning how to apply face makeup properly.

They are differences which seem to be inherent in the difference between a republic and a monarchy, but which it would be truer to say are inherent in the difference between a body of men packed close together within the walls of a city and a body of men - if we can call them a body - scattered over a wide territory..

It is truer to say that on the whole the Jews began at this period to abandon as hopeless the attempt to find a place for themselves in the general life of their country.

But " alchemy " was something more than a particularly vain and deluded manifestation of the thirst for gold, as it is sometimes represented; in its wider and truer significance it stands for the chemistry of the middle ages.

In oratory, as in every other intellectual province, the Greeks had a truer sense of the limits and conditions of their art.

Nor had he any wish to undermine established beliefs, except where he conceived that they conflicted with a truer religion and a purer morality.