About The Word Really
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What's The Definition Of Really?
[adv] 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"
[adv] in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [adv] (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"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to express disbelief) [adv] in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" Synonyms | Synonyms for Really: actually | forsooth | genuinely | in truth | rattling | real | truly | very Related Terms | Find terms related to Really: See Also | Really In Webster's Dictionary \Re"al*ly`\, adv.
Royally. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Re"al*ly\, adv. In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth. Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. --Swift. Note: Really is often used familiarly as a slight corroboration of an opinion or a declaration. Why, really, sixty-five is somewhat old. --Young. |
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