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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
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
she was now truly American; a genuinely open society; they don't really listen to us
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
(adv) actually
in actual fact
to be nominally but not actually independent; no one actually saw the shark; large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt