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really
1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality (Freq. 61)
- she was now truly American
- a genuinely open society
- they don't really listen to us
• Syn:
truly, genuinely
• Derived from adjective:
real, genuine (for: genuinely), true (for: truly)
2. in actual fact (Freq. 42)
- to be nominally but not actually independent
- no one actually saw the shark
- large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt
• Syn:
actually
• Derived from adjective:
real, actual (for: actually)
3. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
- in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
- really, you shouldn't have done it
- a truly awful book
• Syn:
in truth, truly
• Usage Domain:
intensifier, intensive
4. used as intensifiers;
'real' is sometimes used informally for 'really';
'rattling' is informal
- she was very gifted
- he played very well
- a really enjoyable evening
- I'm real sorry about it
- a rattling good yarn
• Syn:
very, real, rattling
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