in truth

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsreallytruly

   intensifier

Questions about in truth

What does in truth mean?

in truth means "in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)".

What is another word for in truth?

Close synonyms include really, truly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in truth a common word?

in truth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.