real
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin reālisder.
Old French reelbor.
Middle English real
English real
From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.
Inflected forms:
form: realer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more real
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: realest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most real
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
pos: adj
examples: City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.
[T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
gloss: Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
pos: adj
examples: This is real leather.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
gloss: Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
pos: adj
examples: These are real tears!
Whose perfection farr excell’d Hers in all real dignitie
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…]"share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
gloss: Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
pos: adj
examples: a description of real life
I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real, as the dream / Had lively shadowed.
gloss: That has objective, physical existence.
pos: adj
examples: No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
gloss: Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).
pos: adj
examples: My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
What is the real GNP of this polity?
gloss: Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
pos: adj
gloss: Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to immovable tangible property.
pos: adj
examples: real estate; real property
Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.
gloss: Absolute, complete, utter.
pos: adj
examples: This is a real problem.
gloss: Signifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I'm keeping it real.
gloss: Signifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: yo, Imma be real with u... don't ever text me again
gloss: Really; very.
pos: adv
tags: US
colloquial
not-comparable
examples: When I told him the truth, he got real mad.
Se looked at me real strange.
We were meeting in the Oval Office and I saw the morning news report and I just happened casually to mention to George I says- 'Well I'll betcha that President Johnson is gonna be real pleased when he finds that now they are calling me the number one bomber.' And George Christian said 'Oh don't be too sure.' He says, 'You know LBJ- he never likes to be number two.'
gloss: A commodity; see realty.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
pos: noun
gloss: A real number.
pos: noun
examples: There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."
gloss: A realist.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals
Synonyms: true
actual
authentic
genuine
heartfelt
based
Antonyms: imaginary
nonreal
unreal
artificial
counterfeit
fake
sham
feigned
staged
fictitious
made-up
pretend
Derived words: antireal
areal
big real mode
cyberreal
derealization
derealize
flat real mode
for real
for real life
get real
hard real-time
hyperreal
in a real state
in real life
it's been real
keep it real
like real
on the real
photoreal
real ale
real analysis
real and straight
real asset
real axis
real body
real capital
real covenant
real deal
real diaper
realest
real estate
real estate agent
real focus
real function
real gone
real image
real income
realise
realism
reality
real jam
real ledger
real life
real-life experience
real line
real live
really
real Macoy
real market
real matrix
real McCoy
real McKoy
real men don't eat quiche
real mode
real nappy
realness
real number
real one
real option
real part
real-person fiction
real person fiction
real plane
real presence
real projective plane
real property
real property tax
real quick
real reality
real return
real right
real school
realsome
real soon now
realspace
real storage
real stuff
real superhero
real talk
real tennis
real thing
realtime
real-time
real time
realtone
real-valued
real valued
real variable
real vector space
real wages
real world
real-world
real-worlder
rillest
rinsta
shadow real wage
shit just got real
soft real-time
superreal
surreal
the real deal
the real thing
the real treasure is the friends we made along the way
the struggle is real
trill
trillest
virtual real mode
will the real someone please stand up
Translations:
lang: Amharic
word: እውነተኛ
roman: ʾəwnätäña
lang: Arabic
word: حَقِيقِيّ
roman: ḥaqīqiyy
lang: Arabic
word: وَاقِعِيّ
roman: wāqiʕiyy
lang: Arabic
word: حَقيقي
roman: ḥagīgi
lang: Arabic
word: واقعي
roman: wāqiʕi
lang: Armenian
word: իրական
roman: irakan
lang: Assamese
word: আচল
roman: asol
lang: Azerbaijani
word: həqiqi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əsl
lang: Azerbaijani
word: real
lang: Bashkir
word: ысын
roman: ısın
lang: Belarusian
word: сапра́ўдны
roman: sapráwdny
lang: Belarusian
word: рэа́льны
roman: reálʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: действи́телен
roman: dejstvítelen
lang: Bulgarian
word: и́стински
roman: ístinski
lang: Bulgarian
word: реа́лен
roman: reálen
lang: Burmese
word: စစ်
roman: cac
lang: Burmese
word: အစစ်
roman: a.cac
lang: Catalan
word: real
lang: Catalan
word: ver
lang: Catalan
word: veritable
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 真的
roman: zhēn de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 真實的 /真实的
roman: zhēnshí de
lang: Czech
word: skutečný
lang: Czech
word: reálný
lang: Danish
word: ægte
lang: Danish
word: virkelig
lang: Dutch
word: echt
lang: Dutch
word: waar
lang: Esperanto
word: vera
lang: Estonian
word: tõeline
lang: Estonian
word: päris
lang: Finnish
word: todellinen
lang: Finnish
word: tosi
lang: French
word: réel
lang: French
word: vrai
lang: Galician
word: real
lang: Georgian
word: ნამდვილი
roman: namdvili
lang: Georgian
word: რეალური
roman: realuri
lang: Georgian
word: მართალი
roman: martali
lang: German
word: wahr
lang: German
word: wirklich
lang: German
word: echt
lang: Greek
word: αληθινός
roman: alithinós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γνήσιος
roman: gnḗsios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀληθινός
roman: alēthinós
lang: Hebrew
word: אמיתי
roman: amití
lang: Hebrew
word: ממשי
lang: Hindi
word: सच्चा
roman: saccā
lang: Hindi
word: असली
roman: aslī
lang: Hindi
word: वास्तविक
roman: vāstavik
lang: Hungarian
word: igaz
lang: Hungarian
word: valós
lang: Hungarian
word: valódi
lang: Icelandic
word: satt
lang: Italian
word: reale
lang: Italian
word: vero
lang: Japanese
word: 現実の
roman: genjitsu no
lang: Japanese
word: 真実の
roman: shinjitsu no
lang: Kazakh
word: нағыз
roman: nağyz
lang: Khmer
word: ពិត
roman: pɨt
lang: Korean
word: 실제(實際)의
roman: silje-ui
lang: Korean
word: 현실(現實)의
roman: hyeonsir-ui
lang: Korean
word: 진실(眞實)의
roman: jinsir-ui
lang: Korean
word: 참
roman: cham
lang: Korean
word: 진
roman: jin
lang: Lao
word: ຈິງ
roman: ching
lang: Latin
word: vērus
lang: Latvian
word: reāls
lang: Latvian
word: īstens
lang: Latvian
word: īsts
lang: Macedonian
word: реален
roman: realen
lang: Macedonian
word: вистински
roman: vistinski
lang: Macedonian
word: стваран
roman: stvaran
lang: Malayalam
word: യഥാർത്ഥ
roman: yathāṟttha
lang: Manchu
word: ᠶᠠᡵᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ
roman: yargiyan
lang: Marathi
word: वास्तविक
roman: vāstavik
lang: Mongolian
word: жинхэнэ
roman: žinxene
lang: Norman
word: véthitabl'ye
lang: Norman
word: réel
lang: Norwegian
word: virkelig
lang: Old English
word: sōþ
lang: Persian
word: حقیقی
roman: haqiqi
lang: Polish
word: prawdziwy
lang: Portuguese
word: real
lang: Portuguese
word: vero
lang: Portuguese
word: verdadeiro
lang: Romanian
word: real
lang: Romanian
word: adevărat
lang: Russian
word: настоя́щий
roman: nastojáščij
lang: Russian
word: и́стинный
roman: ístinnyj
lang: Russian
word: действи́тельный
roman: dejstvítelʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: реа́льный
roman: reálʹnyj
lang: Sanskrit
word: वास्तविक
roman: vāstavika
lang: Sanskrit
word: सत्य
roman: satya
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ства̑ран
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ре̏а̄лан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: stvȃran
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȅālan
lang: Slovak
word: skutočný
lang: Slovak
word: reálny
lang: Slovene
word: resničen
lang: Slovene
word: realen
lang: Spanish
word: real
lang: Spanish
word: verdadero
lang: Spanish
word: auténtico
lang: Spanish
word: vero
lang: Swedish
word: sann
lang: Swedish
word: verklig
lang: Tagalog
word: tunay
lang: Tagalog
word: totoo
lang: Tajik
word: ҳақиқӣ
roman: haqiqi
lang: Telugu
word: నిజమైన
roman: nijamaina
lang: Telugu
word: అసలు
roman: asalu
lang: Thai
word: จริง
roman: jing
lang: Turkish
word: doğru
lang: Turkish
word: hakiki
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كرچك
roman: gerçek
lang: Tuvan
word: ёзулуг
roman: yozulug
lang: Ukrainian
word: спра́вжній
roman: správžnij
lang: Ukrainian
word: ді́йсний
roman: díjsnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: і́стинний
roman: ístynnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: реа́льний
roman: reálʹnyj
lang: Vietnamese
word: thật
lang: Vietnamese
word: thiệt
lang: Vietnamese
word: thực
lang: Volapük
word: jenöfik
lang: Yiddish
word: אמתדיק
roman: emesdik
lang: Yiddish
word: רעאַל
roman: real
lang: Yiddish
word: עכט
roman: ekht
lang: Zazaki
word: rast (diq)
lang: Zazaki
word: heqiqi
lang: Romanian
word: prea
lang: Romanian
word: super
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: furam svoj fazon