really

Words with a similar base: really

'really'

[truly.r.01] as in: in accordance with truth or fact or reality

Examples:
she was now truly American
a genuinely open society
they don't really listen to us

'really'

[actually.r.01] as in: in actual fact

Examples:
to be nominally but not actually independent
no one actually saw the shark
large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt

'really'

[in_truth.r.01] as in: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)

Examples:
in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
really, you shouldn't have done it
a truly awful book

'really'

[very.r.01] as in: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal

Examples:
she was very gifted
he played very well
a really enjoyable evening
I'm real sorry about it
a rattling good yarn

Origins

					really (English)
├── -ly (English)
│   ├── -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
│   └── -ly (Middle English (1100-1500))
└── real (English)
    └── reel (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
        └── realis (Latin)
            └── res (Latin)

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