truly

Adverb

• 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
    

• 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
    

• by right
  • baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime
    

• in accordance with truth or fact or reality
  • she was now truly American
    
  • a genuinely open society
    
  • they don't really listen to us
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  in truth , really , sincerely , unfeignedly , rightfully , genuinely