Adverb
1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality;
"she was now truly American""a genuinely open society""they don't really listen to us"2. by right;
"baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"3. with sincerity; without pretense;
"she praised him sincerely for his victory""was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher""we are truly sorry for the inconvenience"4. 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"