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English Dictionary -> Letter R -> really

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really Definition

• (r) in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don''t really listen to us"
• (r) in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
• (r) 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"
• (r) 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"

really Synonyms

• actually
• genuinely
• in truth
• rattling
• real
• really
• truly
• very