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really

adverb

used to give emphasis

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Word Facts

Word length
6
Starts with
R
Ends with
Y
Contains
EA
Scrabble score
9
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˈɹɪəlɪ

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Definitions

adverb

  1. used to give emphasis

    “she was very gifted”

adverb

  1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality

    “she was now truly American”

adverb

  1. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)

    “in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire”

adverb

  1. in actual fact

    “to be nominally but not actually independent”

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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

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