Really meaning

What does “really” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“really” is an adverb with 4 meanings. Its most common meaning is: in accordance with truth or fact or reality.

really

in accordance with truth or fact or reality
“she was now truly American”
“a genuinely open society”
Synonymstruly genuinely
in actual fact
“to be nominally but not actually independent”
“no one actually saw the shark”
Synonymsactually
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”
Synonymsin truth truly
used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
“she was very gifted”
“he played very well”
Synonymsvery real rattling

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University