echt

echt  (kt)

adj.

Real; genuine.

adv.

Really; genuinely.

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[German, from Middle High German, from Middle Low German echte; akin to Old High German ohaft, customary.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

echt - not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather" genuine honest, honorable - not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting" real, existent - being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow sincere - open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship" true - consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"