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ring true

ring true verb: to seem to be correct, or plausible.

Verb

ring true (third-person singular simple present rings true, present participle ringing true, simple past rang true, past participle rung true)

  1. (idiomatic) To seem to be correct, or plausible
    • His excuse about his daughter being ill again rings true, to me.
    • T.R. Witomski's trashing of gay literature would have rung a bit truer if he had a little less to do with the condition of gay literature as we now know it.1987 February 22, Lars Eighner, “Gay Writers Are Attempting Quality Work”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 4

ring true meaning in Bengali

ring true in Bengali

সঠিক, বিশ্বাসযোগ্য বলে মনে হওয়া

Antonyms of ring true

Forms of ring true

third-person singular presentrings true
present participleringing true
pastrang true
past participlerung true

Origin of ring true

From the sound of a coin when tested for authenticity.

Questions about ring true

What does ring true mean?
Ring true means to seem to be correct, or plausible.
What is ring true in Bengali?
Ring true in Bengali is সঠিক, বিশ্বাসযোগ্য বলে মনে হওয়া. See Ring true meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is ring true?
Ring true is a verb.
What is the past tense of ring true?
The past tense of ring true is rang true.

Words near ring true in the dictionary

  1. ring tones
  2. ring topologies
  3. ring topology
  4. ring toss
  5. ring tosses
  6. ring true
  7. ring up
  8. ring up the curtain
  9. ring vaccination
  10. ring vaccinations
  11. ring walk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ring true (page history and authors); ring true (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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