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Synonyms & Antonyms of true
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- his claim that he's the heir to the throne of Greece can't be true
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- bogus,
- counterfeit,
- fake,
- false,
- mock,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pseudo,
- sham,
- spurious,
- suppositious,
- supposititious,
- unauthentic,
- unreal
- if that is true, then we can't get in without a key
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- the true scope of this environmental problem is far greater than anyone imagined
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- he will be true to his word
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- it's not a true reproduction of the painting because the original is much larger
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- may our love for one another always be true
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- artless,
- genuine,
- guileless,
- honest,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive
- (or naïve),
- natural,
- real,
- simple,
- sincere,
- unaffected,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious
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- childlike,
- dewy-eyed,
- gee-whiz,
- impressionable,
- inexperienced,
- malleable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- simpleminded,
- unsophisticated,
- unworldly,
- wide-eyed
- candid,
- direct,
- frank,
- free,
- free-spoken,
- open,
- openhearted,
- plain,
- plainspoken,
- single-minded,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- unguarded
- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable),
- susceptible,
- unwary
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- affected,
- artful,
- artificial,
- assuming,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- dissimulating,
- fake,
- false,
- guileful,
- insincere,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pretentious
- that news story is completely true, for the station released a list of its sources to back it up
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- hypothetical,
- speculative,
- theoretical
- (also theoretic)
- chimerical
- (also chimeric),
- fabulous,
- fanciful,
- fantastic
- (also fantastical),
- imaginary,
- imagined,
- invented,
- legendary,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- mythical
- (or mythic),
- pretend
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- a true friend when you need one
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- dodgy
- [chiefly British],
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- untrustworthy
- paleontologists are still debating whether the fossil is that of a true dinosaur or a precursor
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- archetypal
- (also archetypical),
- average,
- characteristic,
- normal,
- regular,
- representative,
- standard,
- typical
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- distinctive,
- especial,
- exceptional,
- extraordinary,
- infrequent,
- noteworthy,
- rare,
- remarkable,
- singular,
- special,
- unexpected,
- unfamiliar,
- unique,
- unpredictable
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- a person of great integrity, he was the truest person I've ever met
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“True.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/true. Accessed 27 May. 2022.
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