really
adverb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 adverb
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
she was now truly American
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adverb
in actual fact
to be nominally but not actually independent
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adverb
in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
Related & opposite
- intensifier domain usage
Sense 4 adverb
used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
she was very gifted
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derived from | Related & opposite | true |
| 1 | derived from | Related & opposite | literal |
| 2 | derived from | Related & opposite | real |
| 2 | derived from | Related & opposite | factual |
| 3 | domain usage | Related & opposite | intensifier |