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Textual thesaurus for "really"

(adv) rattling, real, very

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


(adv) genuinely, truly

in accordance with truth or fact or reality

she was now truly American; a genuinely open society; they don't really listen to us


(adv) in truth, truly

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