Hypertext Webster Gateway: "really"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Re-ally \Re"-al*ly"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + ally, v. t.]
To bring together again; to compose or form anew. --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Really \Re"al*ly`\, adv.
Royally. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Really \Re"al*ly\, adv.
In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.

Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
--Swift.

Note: Really is often used familiarly as a slight
corroboration of an opinion or a declaration.

Why, really, sixty-five is somewhat old. --Young.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

really
adv 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" [syn: {truly}, {genuinely}]
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" [syn: {actually}]
3: (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"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to
express disbelief) [syn: {in truth}, {truly}, {forsooth}]
4: intensifiers; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well";
"a really enjoyable evening"; (`real' is sometimes used
informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it";
`rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn") [syn:
{very}, {real}, {rattling}]


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