the true

1. 1.

   conformity to reality or actuality

   “they debated the truth of the proposition”

   “the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat”

   “he was famous for the truth of his portraits”

   “he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities”

   Synonymstruthveritytrueness

   Broaderactuality

Questions about the true

What does the true mean?

the true means "conformity to reality or actuality".

What is another word for the true?

Close synonyms include truth, verity, trueness. 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 the true a common word?

the true 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.