really

英['rɪəlɪ] 美[ˈriəˌli,ˈrili]

1. 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. 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 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. 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"