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Meaning of
'really'
(Webster Dictionary)
1 .
Really
[
adv.
]
- Royally.
- In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.
Meaning of 'really' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 .
really
[
r
]
Meaning (1):
- in accordance with truth or fact or reality
Example in sentence:
a genuinely open society;
she was now truly American;
they don't really listen to us
Meaning (2):
- used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
Example in sentence:
a rattling good yarn;
a really enjoyable evening;
he played very well;
I'm real sorry about it;
she was very gifted
Meaning (3):
- in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
Example in sentence:
a truly awful book;
in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire;
really, you shouldn't have done it
Meaning (4):
- in actual fact
Example in sentence:
large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt;
no one actually saw the shark;
properly speaking, they are not husband and wife;
to be nominally but not actually independent
Nearby Words:
reabsorb
reabsorption
reaccess
reaccuse
reach
reachable
reached
reacher
reaching
reachless
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