ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Phr. he was a scholar and a ripe and good one [Henry VIII]; the manifold linguist [All's
Well That Ends Well].
493. Ignoramus -- N. ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.
[insulting terms for ignorant person:] (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile,
idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole [Vulg.].
[person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist † , smatterer, dabbler, half
scholar; charlatan; wiseacre.
greenhorn, amateur &c (dupe) 547; novice, tyro &c (learner) 541; numskull.
lubber &c (bungler) 701; fool &c 501; pedant &c 492.
Adj. bookless † , shallow; ignorant &c 491.
Phr. a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits [Pope].
494. [Object of knowledge.] Truth -- N. fact, reality &c (existence) 1; plain fact, plain
matter of fact; nature &c (principle) 5; truth, verity; gospel, gospel truth, God's honest
truth; orthodoxy &c 983.1; authenticity; veracity &c 543; correctness, correctitude † .
accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c adj.; precision, delicacy; rigor,
mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision &c (regularity) 80; conformity
to rule; nicety.
orthology † ; ipsissima verba [Lat.]; realism.
plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth,
stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas [Lat.]; the very thing; not an illusion
&c 495; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth; the truth the whole truth
and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
V. be true &c adj., be the case; sand the test; have the true ring; hold good, hold true,
hold water.
render true, prove true &c adj.; substantiate &c (evidence) 467.
get at the truth &c (discover) 480.1.
Adj. real, actual &c (existing) 1; veritable, true; right, correct; certain &c 474;
substantially true, categorically true, definitively true &c; true to the letter, true as gospel;
unimpeachable; veracious &c 543; unreconfuted † , unconfuted † ; unideal † , unimagined;
realistic.
exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so; strict, severe; close &c
(similar) 17; literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous &c (conscientious) 939; religiously exact,
punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice,
delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut.
verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven
(demonstrated) 478.
rigorously true, unquestionably true.
true by definition.
genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodox &c 983.1; official, ex officio.
pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed,
uncolored; in its true colors; pukka † .
well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid; undistorted,
undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering.