truth

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɹuːθ/    美 /tɹuθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality. uncountable,usually
    — The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
  2. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy. uncountable,usually
    — There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
  3. The state or quality of being true to someone or something. uncountable,usually
    — Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
  4. Faithfulness, fidelity. archaic,uncountable,usually
    — Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]
  5. A pledge of loyalty or faith. obsolete,uncountable,usually
  6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc. uncountable,usually
    — Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.
  7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality. uncountable,usually
    — The truth is what is.
  8. Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom. countable,usually
    — Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
  9. Topness; the property of a truth quark. dated,uncountable,usually
  10. In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth. uncountable,usually
    — When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.
动词 v.
  1. To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully. obsolete,transitive
    — c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
  2. To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
    — A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.
  3. To tell the truth. intransitive,nonstandard
    — You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'

词形变化

truths plural trewth alternative,obsolete truths present,singular,third-person truthing participle,present truthed participle,past truthed past trewth alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
truth straight goods veraciousness veracity veridicality verity
反义词
falsehood falsity lie nonsense drivel untruth half-truth falseness
衍生词
ain't that the truth a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on antitruth bend the truth biotruth countertruth economical with the truth first truth God honest truth God's honest truth God's truth Gospel truth grain of truth ground truth half-truth hard truth home truth if truth be told in truth in wine, there is truth it's the truth, Ruth kernel of truth live one's truth mistruth moment of truth naked truth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation nontruth nugget of truth of a truth plain truth post-truth race of truth ring of truth semitruth sneeze on the truth speak truth to power Spirit of Truth stretch the truth supertruth talk truth to power tell the truth tell-truth tell you the truth there's a grain of truth in every joke the truth is in the wine to tell the truth to tell you the truth trickle truth troof truthaphobia truthbearer truth be told truth bomb truth book truth commission truth drug truthen truther trutherism truthful truth function truthify truthiness truthism truth is stranger than fiction truthless truth lies at the bottom of a well truthlike truthly truthmaker truthmaking truthness truth nuke truthology truthophobia Truth or Consequences truth or dare truth quark truth quotient truthseeker truth serum truthsome truth squad truth table truthteller truth-telling truth to tell truth tree truth value truthward truthwards truth will out truth window truthy trvke vacuous truth
相关词
true untrue post-truth
并列词
truthiness verisimilitude

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der.
Proto-Germanic *triwwiz
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Proto-Germanic *-iþō
Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō
Old English trēowþ
Middle English trouthe
English truth
Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der.
Proto-Germanic *triwwiz
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Proto-Germanic *-iþō
Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō
Old English trēowþ
Middle English trouthe
English truth
Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
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