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| 1. | [ adverb ] in accordance with truth or fact or reality | |
| Synonyms: | truly genuinely | |
| Examples: | "she was now truly American" "a genuinely open society" "they don't really listen to us" |
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| Related terms: | true actual actual actual | |
| 2. | [ adverb ] in actual fact | |
| Synonyms: | actually | |
| Examples: | "to be nominally but not actually independent" "no one actually saw the shark" "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" |
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| Related terms: | real actual real actual | |
| 3. | [ adverb ] (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire" | |
| Synonyms: | in_truth forsooth truly | |
| Examples: | "really, you shouldn't have done it" "a truly awful book" (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to express disbelief) |
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| Related terms: | intensifier | |
| 4. | [ adverb ] intensifiers | |
| Synonyms: | very real rattling | |
| Examples: | "she was very gifted" "he played very well" "a really enjoyable evening" (`real' is sometimes used informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it" `rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn") |
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| Similar spelling: |
Reilly rely real relay Reily Relyea Reiley Reilley reel rally Reali Reale |
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