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really |
Overview of adv really The adv really has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (61) truly, genuinely, really -- (in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us") 2. (42) actually, really -- (in actual fact "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt") 3. in truth, really, truly, forsooth -- ((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)) 4. very really, real, rattling -- (intensifiers; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; (`real' is sometimes used informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it"; `rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn")) Overview of adv really The adv really has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (61) truly, genuinely, really -- (in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us") 2. (42) actually, really -- (in actual fact "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt") 3. in truth, really, truly, forsooth -- ((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)) 4. very really, real, rattling -- (intensifiers; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; (`real' is sometimes used informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it"; `rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn"))
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