• Adv: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; examples: "she was now truly American", "a genuinely open society", "they don't really listen to us"
• Adv: in actual fact; examples: "to be nominally but not actually independent", "no one actually saw the shark", "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
• Adv: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); examples: "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire", "really, you shouldn't have done it", "a truly awful book"
• Adv: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; examples: "she was very gifted", "he played very well", "a really enjoyable evening", "I'm real sorry about it", "a rattling good yarn"