really, adv.
freq. cnt. 103
freq. cnt. 103
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
<adv.all> freq. cnt.: 82 freq. cnt.: 61 freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 1
genuinely really truly
sample sentences
"she was now truly American""a genuinely open society"
"they don't really listen to us"
lexical pointers
derived from/pertains to
lexical pointers
derived from/pertains to
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derived from/pertains to
in actual fact
<adv.all> freq. cnt.: 78 freq. cnt.: 42 freq. cnt.: 36
actually really
sample sentences
"to be nominally but not actually independent""no one actually saw the shark"
"large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
lexical pointers
derived from/pertains to
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derived from/pertains to
used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
<adv.all> freq. cnt.: 268 freq. cnt.: 260 freq. cnt.: 8
rattling real really very
sample sentences
"she was very gifted""he played very well"
"a really enjoyable evening"
"I'm real sorry about it"
"a rattling good yarn"
in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
<adv.all> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7
in truth really truly
sample sentences
"in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire""really, you shouldn't have done it"
"a truly awful book"
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domain of synset (usage)