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REALLY adverb

Definition of really (adverb)

  1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality
    • "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"
    • synonyms: genuinely, truly
  2. 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: actually
  3. 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"
    • synonyms: in truth, truly
  4. 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"
    • synonyms: rattling, real, very
Source: Princeton University Wordnet

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