True
True adjective - Being exactly as appears or as claimed.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- It turns our that the myth really wasn't true... but the sword is still good enough to be useful by the time you get to it.
Source: The Legend of Chekhov - It's strongly implied that the initial humanoid shape is no more its "true form" than the human and dog shapes it takes later, because Things don't really have a true form ... they're more like colonies of microorganisms that take on whatever shape seems useful.
Source: This Was His True Form - It's useful for a lot of different reasons: Maybe to expose the true feelings that other characters have about Bob, now that they feel there's no need to further hide their true emotions.
Source: Premature Eulogy
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