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really

/ˈɹɪli/ · 6 letters · 5 distinct letters

  1. adverb

    in accordance with truth or fact or reality

    she was now truly American

  2. adverb

    in actual fact

    to be nominally but not actually independent

  3. adverb

    in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)

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

  4. adverb

    used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal

    she was very gifted

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