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- 1 True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
"City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town."
- 2 Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
"This is real leather."
- 3 Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
"These are real tears!"
- 4 Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
"a description of real life"
- 5 That has objective, physical existence.
"No one has ever seen a real unicorn."
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- 6 Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).
"My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month."
- 7 Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
- 8 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.
- 9 Relating to immovable tangible property.
"real estate; real property"
- 10 Absolute, complete, utter.
"This is a real problem."
- 11 Signifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success. slang
"I'm keeping it real."
- 12 Signifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success.; Firm through directness, readiness to confront. slang
"yo, Imma be real with u... don't ever text me again"
- 1 capable of being treated as fact wordnet
- 2 having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary wordnet
- 3 being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory wordnet
- 4 no less than what is stated; worthy of the name wordnet
- 5 of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation wordnet
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- 6 coinciding with reality wordnet
- 7 not to be taken lightly wordnet
- 8 (of property) fixed or immovable wordnet
- 9 being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something wordnet
- 1 Really; very. US, colloquial, not-comparable
"When I told him the truth, he got real mad."
- 1 used to give emphasis wordnet
- 1 Real Madrid, a football club from Madrid.
- 2 A surname.
- 1 A commodity; see realty.
- 2 Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
- 3 A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942. uncountable
- 4 A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$. uncountable
"Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants."
- 5 an old small silver Spanish coin wordnet
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- 6 One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
- 7 A coin worth one real.
- 8 A coin worth one real. countable
- 9 A coin worth one real. countable
- 10 the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos wordnet
- 11 A real number.
"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.""
- 12 any rational or irrational number wordnet
- 13 A realist. obsolete
"Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals"
Etymology
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.
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.
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.
Borrowed from Spanish real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
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