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