Chapter Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

(Phrases). The plain truth; the honest truth; the naked truth; the sober truth; the very thing; a stubborn fact; not a dream, fancy, illusion, etc.; the exact truth, etc.; the real Simon Pure.

(Verbs). To be true, real, etc., to hold good.

To render true, legitimatise, legitimise, substantiate, realise, actualise; to make good, establish.

To get at the truth, see 480.

(Phrases). Vitam impendere vero; magna est veritas et prœvalebit.

(Adjectives). True, real, veritable, actual, certain, positive, absolute, existing 1, substantial, categorical, factual; unrefuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined.

Exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, correct, strict, hard-and-fast, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, conscientious, religious, punctilious, nice, mathematical, axiomatic, demonstrable, scientific, unerring, faithful, bona fide, curious, delicate, meticulous.

Genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, sound, sterling, hall - marked, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished; solid, substantial, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic.

(Phrases). Just the thing; neither more nor less; to a hair.

(Adverbs). Truly, verily, veritably, troth, certainly, certes, assuredly, in truth, in good truth, of a truth, really, indubitably, in sooth, forsooth, in reality, in fact, in point of fact, as a matter of fact, strictly speaking, de facto, indeed, in effect, actually, ipso facto, positively, virtually, at bottom, au fond.

Precisely, accurately, ad amussim, etc., mathematically, to a nicety, to a hair, to a T, to an inch; to the letter, au pied de la lettre.

In every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, by all means.

(Phrases). Joking apart; in good earnest; in sober earnest; sooth to say; at the bottom of the well.

480. Untruth, see 546.

Error (Substantives), mistake, miss, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misunderstanding, inaccuracy, incorrectness, inexactness, misconstruction 523, miscomputation, miscalculation 481.

Fault, blunder, bull, bloomer, slip of the tongue, lapsus linguœ, Spoonerism, slip of the pen, equivoque, cross purposes, oversight, flaw, misprint, erratum; heresy, misstatement, misreport, misprint; bad shot.

Illusion, delusion, self-deceit, self-deception, hallucination, monomania, aberration; fable, dream, shadow, fancy, bubble, false light, the mists of error, will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, ignis fatuus, chimera, maya.

(Verbs). To be erroneous, false, etc., to cause error, to mislead, lead astray, lead into error, delude, give a false impression, idea, etc., to falsify, misstate, misrelate, misrepresent 544, deceive 545, beguile.

To be in error, to mistake, to receive a false impression; to lie or labour under an error, mistake, etc., to blunder, be at fault, to misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misremember, misreckon, miscalculate, miscount, misestimate, misjudge, misthink, flounder, trip.

(Phrases). To take the shadow for the substance; to go on a fool's errand.

(Adjectives). Erroneous, untrue, false, unreal, unsubstantial, baseless, groundless, ungrounded, heretical.

Inexact, incorrect, illogical, partial, one-sided, unreasonable, absonous, absonant, indefinite, unscientific, inaccurate, aberrant.