re·al·ly /ˈriəli/
1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"
synset: truly, genuinely, really
2. in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
3. 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"
synset: in_truth, really, truly
4. 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"
synset: very, really, real, rattling
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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