Really - Definition
really
adv 1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now
truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't
really listen to us" [syn: truly, genuinely,
really]
2: in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually
independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large
meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn:
actually, really]
3: 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"
[syn: in truth, really, truly]
4: 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" [syn: very,
really, real, rattling]