really

Adverb
  1. In accordance with truth or fact or reality (synset 400037620)
    "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"
    same as: genuinely, truly
  2. In actual fact (synset 400150568)
    "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
    same as: actually
  3. In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) (synset 400038407)
    "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"
    domain usage: intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
    same as: in truth, truly
  4. Used as intensifiers;
    `real' is sometimes used informally for `really';
    `rattling' is informal (synset 400032295)
    "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"
    same as: rattling, real, very

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