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really
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English really, realy, rialliche, equivalent to real +? -ly.
Alternative forms
- real-ly
- reälly
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????l?/, /????li/, /????l?/, /????li/
- (US) IPA(key): /???li/, /??ili/, /??i.?li/
- Hyphenation: re?al?ly
- Rhymes: -i?li
Adverb
really (comparative more really, superlative most really)
- (literally) In a way or manner that is real, not unreal.
- 1751, John Roche, Moravian Heresy, page 168:
- We are to believe that by an extraordinary Conception by Means of the holy Ghost he in an extraordinary MANNER, (unknown to us) really assumed Flesh, and was by her nourished in the Womb and in due Time born in a natural Manner, and that whilst on Earth he was really hungry, and dry, and eat and drank as really as other Men, without, any Deception of Sight in us or Delusion whatsoever.
- 1878, Jonathan Baldwin Turner, Christ's Words as Related to Science,..., page 52:
- If we take the phenomenal world as it strikes our senses, in all its varied and wonderful powers and aspects; as the mere symbol of the Divine Presence and power, that is, according to Christ, ever in, through, and over all, as really as are causal light, heat and gravity, or as really as our own life and souls pervade every atom of our bodies, [...]
- 1975, Robin H. S. Boyd, An introduction to Indian Christian theology, page 48:
- Thus Brahman must be described as ‘really real’, while a rope, or a person, or God Himself, is ‘unreally real’. And it is only the Vedantin who can distinguish the real from the unreal, for to others all seems real.
- 1751, John Roche, Moravian Heresy, page 168:
- (modal) Actually; in fact; in reality.
- (informal, as an intensifier) Very (modifying an adjective); very much (modifying a verb).
- There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].
Alternative forms
- (in a way or manner that is real, not unreal): real-ly
Usage notes
- Like its synonyms, really is, in practice, often used to preface an opinion, rather than a fact. (See also usage notes for actually.)
- Increasingly people are recognising what's really important is having children.
Synonyms
- (actually): actually, in fact, indeed, truly; see also Thesaurus:actually
- (colloquial, as an intensifier): so
Translations
Interjection
really
- Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism.
- A: He won the Nobel Prize yesterday.
- B: Really?
- (colloquial, sarcastic, typically exaggerated question.) Indicating that what was just said was obvious and unnecessary; contrived incredulity
- A: I've just been reading Shakespeare - he's one of the best authors like, ever!
- B: Really.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Indicating affirmation, agreement.
- A: That girl talks about herself way too much.
- B: Really. She's a nightmare.
- Indicating displeasure at another person's behaviour or statement.
- Well, really! How rude.
Synonyms
- (contrived incredulity, or in ironic / sarcastic sense): you don't say, no kidding, oh really, no really
Translations
References
Etymology 2
re- +? ally
Verb
really (third-person singular simple present reallies, present participle reallying, simple past and past participle reallied)
- Alternative form of re-ally
- 1917, German American Annals, page 69:
- She wished since long to die and to be reallied with her children in heaven.
- 1997, Warren F. Kuehl, Lynne Dunn, Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920-1939 (Kent State University Press, ?ISBN), page 19:
- Following the election, those who had publicly opposed Harding hastened to really themselves with Republicans who had remained in the party.
- 1917, German American Annals, page 69:
Anagrams
- rallye, y'all're, yaller
really From the web:
- what really happened
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- what really happens when you die
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- what really killed the dinosaurs
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such
English
Alternative forms
- sich, sech (dialectal)
- soch, soche (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swel?, from Proto-Germanic *swal?kaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so +? like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), Low German sölk, sulk, sülk, suk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?t??/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Determiner
such
- (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
- (particularly used in formal documents) Any.
- Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of.
- (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
- In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived.
- To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.
Translations
Pronoun
such
- A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
- 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:
- These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery.
- 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:
Translations
Noun
such (plural suches)
- (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
Related terms
Anagrams
- CHUs, Cush, cush, hucs
German
Pronunciation
Verb
such
- second-person singular imperative present of suchen
Middle English
Determiner
such
- Alternative form of swich
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- what such a beautiful girl
- what such a nice day
- what's such a big deal
- what such a life
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