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Really Definition And Meaning
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"ally`\, adv. Royally. [Obs.] --Chaucer. \Re"ally\, 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.

Really Definition And Meaning

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"

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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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