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- Definition
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- really :in accordance with truth or fact or reality
- she was now truly American|a genuinely open society|they don't really listen to us
- really :in actual fact
- to be nominally but not actually independent|no one actually saw the shark|large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt
- really :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
- really :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