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real: adjective (real sugar)
really: adverb (really wishing
for...)
The adv really has 4 senses
(first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (61) truly, genuinely,
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")
2. (42) actually, 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")
3. in truth, really, truly --
(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")
4. very, really, real,
rattling -- (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")
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