genuine
not fake or counterfeit
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,966 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,521 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- not fake or counterfeit also: echt a genuine Picassogenuine leather
- not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed also: true, unfeigned genuine emotionher interest in people was unfeigned
- being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something also: actual, literal, real her actual motivea literal solitude like a desert
genuine in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Emily Fox-Seton struck a happy mean, and she was a genuine admirer.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Secondly, the trade must be a genuine commercial source of income, the support of its inventor.
The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1
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One look at his really white face told them that at least Davy's fright had been genuine.
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island · Herbert, active Carter · Chapter 1
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Messick was very well, though rather high-flavored, but for genuine nutritiousness and delicacy of fiber, give me Harris.
Sketches New and Old, Part 7. · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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It will sometimes happen to him to get invited--really invited--to an actual country house where genuine sport is carried on.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1