truly adv

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" [syn: genuinely, really]

2 by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" [syn: rightfully]

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" [syn: sincerely, unfeignedly] [ant: insincerely]

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" [syn: in truth, really]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːli

Adverb

truly

1. honestly, truthfully

   That is truly all I know.

2. in actuality, really

   You are truly silly.

Translations

• Dutch: waarlijk, oprecht
• Esperanto: vere
• Latin: vere
• Spanish: verdaderamente
• German: 1. ehrlich, 2. wirklich
• Portuguese: verdadeiramente

See also

• true
• honest
• truth
• real
• indeed

Truly was a band formed in the wake of the grunge era, featuring, former Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto, one-time Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel and singer Robert Roth. They released two full-length studio albums: "Fast Stories... from Kid Coma" in 1995 and "Feeling You Up" in 1998. They were notable for their dense, bass-heavy sound, despite only being a three-piece, recalling Black Sabbath and Yamamoto's previous band. Despite a fair amount of critical acclaim, they had limited commercial success.

Their final release was "Twilight Curtains" in 2000, a mixture of new and unreleased songs and demos.

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