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UK
/ɹˈiəli/
]
[ US /ˈɹiɫi, ˈɹɪɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹiɫi, ˈɹɪɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
he played very well
I'm real sorry about it
a really enjoyable evening
she was very gifted
a rattling good yarn -
in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
a truly awful book
really, you shouldn't have done it -
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
a genuinely open society
they don't really listen to us
she was now truly American -
in actual fact
no one actually saw the shark
large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt
to be nominally but not actually independent
How To Use really In A Sentence
- Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
- A lot of schools don't really encourage team sports .
- The quick touch buttons on the top are not really "touchable," you have to smudge (grind) the button a little to use it. Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals
- Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
- When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
- I think a lot of players from bigger clubs have spent time on loan at smaller clubs and it has really helped.
- It was a bit too clean and antiseptic to be really considered an evil lair.
- I really felt like both of us were gonna be excited for the other one if we won and that meant a lot.
- We spent a lot of time together, well over two months, and so we really got to know each other.
- If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
