From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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,
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" [syn:
actually, really]
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"
[syn: 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" [syn: very,
really, real, rattling]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Re-ally \Re"-al*ly"\ (-l[imac]"), v. t. [Pref. re- + ally, v.
t.]
To bring together again; to compose or form anew. --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Really \Re"al*ly`\ (r[=a]"[aum]l*l[=e]`), adv.
Royally. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Really \Re"al*ly\ (r[=e]"al*l[y^]), adv.
In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.
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Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
--Swift.
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Note: Really is often used familiarly as a slight
corroboration of an opinion or a declaration.
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Why, really, sixty-five is somewhat old. --Young.
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