really

Adverb

• 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
    

• 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
    

• in actual fact
  • to be nominally but not actually independent
    
  • no one actually saw the shark
    
  • large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt
    

• in accordance with truth or fact or reality
  • she was now truly American
    
  • a genuinely open society
    
  • they don't really listen to us
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  very , real , rattling , in truth , truly , actually , genuinely