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adjectivebeing or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
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"a really enjoyable evening" "I'm real sorry about it"adverbused as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
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"his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor"adjectivecapable of being treated as fact
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adjectivehaving substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
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nounany rational or irrational number
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"real objects" "real people; not ghosts" "a film based on real life" "a real illness" "real humility" "Life is real! Life is earnest!"adjectivebeing or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
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adjectivecoinciding with reality
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nounan old small silver Spanish cointype of:
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"the real reason" "real war" "a real friend" "a real woman" "meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal" "it's time he had a real job" "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money"adjectiveno less than what is stated; worthy of the nameOpposite:
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"statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems" "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real"adjectivenot to be taken lightly
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"real property consists of land and buildings"adjective(of property) fixed or immovable
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"real prices" "real income" "real wages"adjectiveof, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflationOpposite:
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nounthe basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavostype of:
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really very true serious reality proper material actual coin concrete documentary genuine objective sincere historical realistic imaginary rational rattling substantial irrational literal tangible existent factual realness veridical real number imaginary number complex number complex quantity scalar product dot product inner product irrational number rational number echt brazilian monetary unit