Forsooth, if this were in a play, I'd want my tuppence back!
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Forsooth
//fɔɹˈsuθ//
Synonyms for "forsooth" (76 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (38)
Adverb(18 words)
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- наистина adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Czech
3 entries- namouduši adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- vskutku adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- věru adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Dutch
1 entries- voorwaar waarlijk adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
German
1 entries- fürwahr adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Ido
3 entries- certe adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- vere adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- ya adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Italian
3 entries- davvero adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- in verità adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- seriamente adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sannelig adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Polish
1 entries- zaiste adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Russian
1 entries- поистине adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Spanish
3 entries- de vero adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- en verdad adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
- veramente adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Swedish
1 entries- minsann adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Turkish
1 entries- hakikaten adv (indeed, truthfully, really)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?"
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A fit man, forsooth, to governe a realme!
Source: wiktionary
[F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]
Source: wiktionary
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