Crossword clues for truer
truer
- More on the mark
- Better aligned
- Not as false
- Nearer the facts
- Comparatively accurate
- ''___ words were never spoken''
- Less fickle
- '-- words were never spoken'
- Wheel aligning device
- Not so crooked
- Not as errant
- More steadfast
- More lifelike
- More honest or accurate
- More grounded in reality
- More correspondent with how things really are, however that is
- More based in reality
- More aligned
- Less perfidious
- Less mendacious
- Less likely to double-cross
- Less likely to betray
- Less feigned
- Less fair-weather
- Comparatively correct
- Closer to reality
- Closer to level
- "___ words have never been spoken"
- More faithful, as a friend
- More correct
- More factual
- More literal
- "___ words were never spoken!"
- More devoted
- More genuine
- More blue?
- More trustworthy
- Less specious
- More loyal
- More accurate
- Less deceitful
- Not as misleading
- More constant
- More bona fide
- More veracious
- More sincere
- More authentic
- More reliable
- Not so deceptive
- More straight trousers lost - SOS sent out
- More in line with reality
- More balanced
- More exact
- More on target
- More honest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
True \True\ (tr[udd]), a. [Compar. Truer (tr[udd]"[~e]r); superl. Truest.] [OE. trewe, AS. tre['o]we faithful, true, from tre['o]w fidelity, faith, troth; akin to OFries. triuwe, adj., treuwa, n., OS. triuwi, adj., trewa, n., D. trouw, adj. & n., G. treu, adj., treue, n., OHG. gitriuwi, adj., triuwa, n., Icel. tryggr, adj., Dan. tro, adj. & n., Sw. trogen, adj., tro, n., Goth. triggws, adj., triggwa, n., trauan to trust, OPruss druwis faith. Cf. Trow, Trust, Truth.]
Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
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Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time.
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Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
Thy so true, So faithful, love unequaled.
--Milton.Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie.
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Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
--John i. 9.True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
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(Biol.) Genuine; real; not deviating from the essential characters of a class; as, a lizard is a true reptile; a whale is a true, but not a typical, mammal.
Note: True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true.
Out of true, varying from correct mechanical form, alignment, adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in the same plane, and the like. [Colloq.]
A true bill (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true.
True time. See under Time.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: true)
WordNet
adj. consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement" [ant: false]
not synthetic or spurious; of real or natural origin; "real mink"; "true gold" [syn: real]
conforming to definitive criteria; "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"
accurately placed or thrown; "his aim was true"; "he was dead on target" [syn: dead on target]
devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth; "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person" [syn: truthful] [ant: untruthful]
worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable source of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me" [syn: dependable, honest, reliable, true(p)]
not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief" [syn: genuine, true(a), unfeigned]
rightly so called; "true courage"; "a spirit which true men have always admired"; "a true friend" [syn: true(a)]
determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles; "true north is geographic north" [syn: true(a)]
having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king" [syn: true(a), lawful, rightful(a)]
in tune; accurate in pitch; "a true note" [syn: on-key]
accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true" [syn: straight]
reliable as a basis for action; "a true prophesy"
adv. as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class" [syn: admittedly, avowedly, confessedly]
See true
Usage examples of "truer".
The Indeterminate in the Intellectual Realm, where there is truer being, might almost be called merely an Image of Indefiniteness: in this lower Sphere where there is less Being, where there is a refusal of the Authentic, and an adoption of the Image-Kind, Indefiniteness is more authentically indefinite.
Authentic Existences but their simulacra--there is nothing here but a jargon invented to make a case for their school: all this terminology is piled up only to conceal their debt to the ancient Greek philosophy which taught, clearly and without bombast, the ascent from the cave and the gradual advance of souls to a truer and truer vision.
In discerning the suitability of the Teutonic legend for this purpose Marlowe showed a far truer understanding of what tragedy should be, of the superior terrors of moral over material downfall, than he displayed in his more successful later tragedy.
So that it would even seem that consciousness tends to blunt the activities upon which it is exercised, and that in the degree in which these pass unobserved they are purer and have more effect, more vitality, and that, consequently, the Sage arrived at this state has the truer fulness of life, life not spilled out in sensation but gathered closely within itself.
Principle which made the earlier statement and to show itself identical with that: for there is no finding anything truer than the true.
This being so, that primal must have much the truer life and be the veritable plant, the plants here deriving from it in the secondary and tertiary degree and living by a vestige of its life.
By changing what happens to the Catalyst in his lifetime, the White Prophet enables the world to follow a truer, better course of history.
Search the wide world over, and you shall not find among the literary men of any nation, one on whom the dignity of a free and manly spirit sits with a grace more native and familiar--whose spontaneous sentiments have a truer tone of nobleness--the course of whose usual feelings is more expanded and honorable--whose acts, whether common and daily, or deliberate and much-considered, are wont at all times to be more beautifully impressed with those marks of sincerity, of modesty, and of justice, which form the very seal of worth in conduct.
We know of no similar production in a truer taste, in a purer style, or more distinctly marked with the character of a good school of composition.
Esther thinks that I should be in a better, and truer, and more honourable position altogether if you did the same to your papa.
As the dank cold of false spring eased into the truer promise of spring-to-come, pale green buds emerged on the trees around us, and traffic grew steadily along the roads.
Old Pop Kipling never said a truer word than when he made that crack about the f.
To-day there is little doubt whose judgement was the truer, even had Ruskin not weakened his position by so often contradicting himself.
The very lies of Dublin and Belfast are truer than the truisms of Westminster.
Grotesque, probably, is the truer word, for everywhere I noticed, and for the first time, this slight alteration of the natural due either to the exaggeration of some detail, or to its suppression, generally, I think, to the latter.