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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Re-ally \Re"-al*ly"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + ally, v. t.] To bring together again to compose or form anew. --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Really \Re"al*ly`\, adv Royally. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Really \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: really adv 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" [syn: {truly}, {genuinely}] 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" [syn: {actually}] 3: (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) [syn: {in truth}, {truly}, {forsooth}] 4: 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") [syn: {very}, {real}, {rattling}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: REALLY, adv Apparently.
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