really
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
How often you will meet it
Rank 310 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 65,656 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.031% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adverb
- in accordance with truth or fact or reality also: truly, genuinely she was now truly Americana genuinely open society
- in actual fact also: actually to be nominally but not actually independentno one actually saw the shark
- in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) also: in truth, truly in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empirereally, you shouldn't have done it
- used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal also: very, real, rattling she was very giftedhe played very well
really 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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I'm really curious to see your witness.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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But really, seriously, I am awfully drawn to it.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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He was not really uncle anyway to Gloria, being merely her kind, good-natured, easily-coaxed guardian.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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The system is really wonderfully easy, and, with proper instruction, a child could do it.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1