English dictionary
really
adverbPronunciation
ˈɹɪəlɪ
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adverb
- used to give emphasis
adverb
- in accordance with truth or fact or reality
adverb
- in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
adverb
- in actual fact
Example sentences
she was very gifted
he played very well
a really enjoyable evening
I'm real sorry about it
a rattling good yarn
she was now truly American
a genuinely open society
they don't really listen to us
in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
really, you shouldn't have done it
a truly awful book
to be nominally but not actually independent
no one actually saw the shark
large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt
properly speaking, they are not husband and wife