1. (

• truly ,
• genuinely ,
• really ,

) in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" ;

2. (

• actually ,
• really ,

) in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" ;

3. (

• in_truth ,
• really ,
• truly ,

) 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" ;

4. (

• very ,
• really ,
• real ,
• rattling

) 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" ;