really

re·al·ly  (r-l, rl)

adv.

1. In actual truth or fact: The horseshoe crab isn't really a crab at all.

2. Truly; genuinely: That was a really enjoyable evening.

3. Indeed: Really, you shouldn't have done it.

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really

Adverb

1. truly: really boring

2. in reality: it's really quite harmless

interj

an exclamation of dismay, doubt, or surprise

USAGE: See at very.

Thesaurus

Adv.	1.	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" genuinely, truly
	2.	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" actually
	3.	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" in truth, truly intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
	4.	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" rattling, real, very

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really

adverb 1. certainly, absolutely, undoubtedly, genuinely, positively, categorically, without a doubt, assuredly, verily, surely

adverb 2. truly, actually, in fact, indeed, in reality, in actuality

Translations

really [ˈrɪəlɪ] adv → realmente;

really? → ¿de veras?

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really [ˈrɪəlɪ] adv → vraiment;

really? → vraiment?, c'est vrai?

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really [ˈrɪəlɪ] adv → wirklich;

what really happened → was wirklich geschah;

really? → wirklich?;

really! (indicating annoyance) → also wirklich!

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really [ˈrɪəlɪ] adv → veramente, davvero

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