Usually means: Truly; very; to a great extent.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word really:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. really: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. really: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. really: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. really: Collins English Dictionary
  5. really: Vocabulary.com
  6. REally, Really, really: Wordnik
  7. really: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. really: Wiktionary
  9. really: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. really: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Really, really: Dictionary.com
  12. really: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. really: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Really (TV channel), Really (UKTV), Really (album), Really: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Really: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. really: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. really: Rhymezone
  18. really: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. really: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. really: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. really: Free Dictionary
  22. really: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. really: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. really: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. really: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. really: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. really: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Really, Really, Really, really: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  (literal) In a way or manner that is real, not unreal.
▸ adverb:  (modal) Actually; in fact; in reality.
▸ adverb:  (informal, as an intensifier) Very (modifying an adjective); very much (modifying a verb).
▸ verb:  Alternative form of re-ally [(transitive) To bring together again.]

Similar:
very, real, actually, truly, forsooth, genuinely, rattling, in truth, just, obviously, more...

Opposite:
barely, scarcely, hardly, faintly, slightly

Types:
very, extremely, quite, fairly, pretty, moderately, more...

Phrases:
not really, really something, oh really, You Were Never Really Here, You Really Got Me, more...


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Similar:
very, real, actually, truly, forsooth, genuinely, rattling, in truth, just, obviously, more...

Opposite:
barely, scarcely, hardly, faintly, slightly

Types:
very, extremely, quite, fairly, pretty, moderately, more...

Phrases:
not really, really something, oh really, You Were Never Really Here, You Really Got Me, No One Ever Really Dies, Clifford's Really Big Movie, Chess on a really big board, I'd Really Love to See You Tonight, more...



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