Analysis Complete

really

/ really /
adverb

Definitions & Examples

adverb Sense 1
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"
adverb Sense 2
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"
Domain:
intensifier intensive
adverb Sense 3
in actual fact
"to be nominally but not actually independent"
"no one actually saw the shark"
"large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
Pertains to:
real existent actual factual
adverb Sense 4
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
"she was now truly American"
"a genuinely open society"
"they don''t really listen to us"
Pertains to:
actual genuine literal real true
Semantic Complexity
69%
Sense Count
4
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
0
Times Searched
3
Relationship Distribution