What is another word for forsooth?

Pronunciation: [fɔːsˈuːθ] (IPA)

Forsooth is a rather archaic and rarely used word in modern language. It is an adverb that means "indeed" or "truly." Fortunately, there are several synonyms for forsooth that are more commonly used and have modern connotations. Some alternatives include "certainly," "in truth," "in fact," "undoubtedly," "honestly," "actually," "verily," and "undeniably." Each of these words conveys a similar idea to forsooth, but is more appropriate for contemporary writing or speech. While forsooth may not be heard or read often, having a varied vocabulary of synonyms for it can come in handy for writers or communicators seeking to add a more old-fashioned or formal tone to their language.

Usage examples for Forsooth

You won't come to the midnight picnic, forsooth!
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
And you won't have anything more to do with me, forsooth!
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
She wants me to help her because I made her a promise, forsooth!
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade

Famous quotes with Forsooth

  • Those illustrious men, who, like torches, have consumed themselves, in order to enlighten others, have often lived unrewarded, and died unlamented. But the tongues of aftertimes have done them justice in one sense, but injustice in another. They have honoured them with their praise, but they have disgraced them with their pity. They pity them forsooth, because they missed of present praise, and temporal emolument; things great indeed to the little, but little to the great.
    Charles Caleb Colton
  • 'I have myself seen the depredations of the Afghans round Dehli and Mattra. God defend us from them! It makes the very hair of the body stand on end to think of them. Two hundred thousand men were destroyed in these massacres, and the hordes of the enemy were without number. Such atrocities, forsooth, were perpetrated in compliance with their religion and law! What cared they for the religion, the law, the honour and reputation of the innocent sufferers? It was enough for such bigots that splendour accrued by their deeds to the faith of Muhammad and 'Ali!'
    Ahmed Shah Durrani
  • The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural.
    Robert Bridges
  • forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hellTherefore, I bid you not dwell in hell but in heaven, or while ye must, upon earth, which is a part of heaven, and forsooth no foul part.
    William Morris
  • With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
    Philip Sidney

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