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Genuine

Genuine Meaning & Definition
Genuine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Genuine?

[adj] not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
[adj] not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"
[adj] being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Genuine: actual | attested | authentic | authenticated | bona fide | documented | echt | good | honest-to-god | honest-to-goodness | literal | old(a) | real | sure-enough(a) | true | true(a) | unfeigned | unquestionable | veritable

Related Terms | Find terms related to Genuine: aboveboard | absolute | actual | arcadian | artless | authentic | bluff | blunt | bona fide | broad | brusque | bucolic | candid | card-carrying | de facto | dinkum | direct | downright | earnest | explicit | factual | fair and square | following the letter | for real | forthright | foursquare | frank | frankhearted | free | free-speaking | free-spoken | free-tongued | good | good-faith | heart-to-heart | historical | homespun | honest | honest-to-God | inartificial | ingenuous | lawful | legitimate | lifelike | literal | native | natural | naturalistic | naturelike | on the level | on the square | on the up-and-up | open | open and aboveboard | openhearted | original | outspoken | pastoral | plain | plain-spoken | positive | proper | pukka | pure | real | realistic | rightful | round | rural | simon-pure | simple | sincere | single-hearted | square | square-dealing | square-shooting | sterling | straight | straightforward | straight-out | straight-shooting | substantial | sure-enough | transparent | true | true to life | true to nature | true to reality | unadorned | unadulterated | unaffected | unartificial | unassumed | unassuming | unchecked | uncolored | unconcocted | unconstrained | uncopied | uncounterfeited | undeniable | undesigning | undisguised | undisguising | undissembling | undissimulating | undistorted | unembellished | unequivocal | unexaggerated | unfabricated | unfanciful | unfeigned | unfeigning | unfictitious | unflattering | unguarded | unimagined | unimitated | uninvented | unpretended | unpretending | unpretentious | unqualified | unreserved | unrestrained | unromantic | unsimulated | unspecious | unspoiled | unsynthetic | unvarnished | up-and-up | verbal | verbatim | veridical | verisimilar | veritable | word-for-word

See Also | existent | honest | honorable | sincere

Genuine In Webster's Dictionary

\Gen"u*ine\, a. [L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. g['e]nuine. See {Gender}.] Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. ``True, genuine night.'' --Dryden. Syn: Authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated. See {Authentic}. -- {Gen"u*ine*ly}, adv. -- {Gen"u*ine*ness}, n. The evidence, both internal and external, against the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming. --Macaulay.

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