noun
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A commodity; see realty.
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(grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
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A real number.
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A realist.
adjective
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True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
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Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
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This is real leather.
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Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
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These are real tears!
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Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
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a description of real life
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That has objective, physical existence.
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No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
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Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).
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My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
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Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
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(of a number) 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.
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Relating to immovable tangible property.
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real estate; real property
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Absolute, complete, utter.
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This is a real problem.
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Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially as regard the enjoyment of life, prowess at sports, or success wooing potential partners.
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I'm keeping it real.
adverb
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Really, very.
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When I told him the truth, he got real mad.
Examples of real in a Sentence
He's not my real brother.
The real surprise came with his presence in the delivery room.
She can drink milk like a real baby.
Soon he became the real king and ruler of all Scotland,
I'd be lying if I didn't admit we have expenses and we're limited in what we can do because of real life restraints, but we're not in this for a golden purse.
It's better for both of us, and it's the only real way I can protect you from him.
My real name is too hard for you to say.
You mean like a real date?
Am I seeing a real place?
Even the IV didn't seem real.
This world was real.
He felt too real.
I keep telling myself it can't be real, she said, her voice barely audible.
It doesn't seem real.
I won't let you think there's a chance this isn't real or permanent.
It was just as real as the first time.
She looked away from the scene, unwilling to believe what she saw was real.
How certain are you that what you feel is not real?
Your scenes can't be real.
It seemed too real, and he'd dwelled long on what he could remember of the conversation.
She gripped the hourglass, a symbol of her hope at leaving, even after learning that there was no real hope.
The way Fred loves mysteries you'd think he'd be thrilled to be a part of a real jury.
I can't even eat real food, she said bitterly.
Even with him taking the edge off, reality still wasn't real.
It was the first real words the two had exchanged since their meeting at the mine.
They keep waiting for what they call real important stuff.
I can't prove it, but I think it's a real possibility.
Pushing that part of the issue aside, she focused on the real problem.
Come. We'll feed you real food.
The world around her was real.
Here then characteristically intuitionalism occupies a half-way house between empiricism, with its appeal to real given fact, and idealism, with its appeal to necessity.
We can by no means regard the physical world as the real world.
Will is noumenally free; but phenomenally, in all real exercises of will, we are determined by the past.
On one side, the world we know by valid processes of thinking cannot, we are told, be the real world.
Materialism supposes that this mechanical order is the real world and the only real world - mechanical monism.'
Nor did the Aegean objects which were lying obscurely in museums in 1870, or thereabouts, provide a sufficient test of the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the Argolid, the Troad and Crete, to cause these to be taken seriously.
The real name of the usurper was, as Darius tells us, Gaumata, a Magian priest from Media; this name has been preserved by Justin i.
No real second edition ever appeared, but in anticipation of it Sir Thomas Browne prepared in or about 1671 (?) his " Account of Birds found in Norfolk," of which the draft, now in the British Museum, was printed in his collected works by Wilkin in 1835.
This was William Sharpe Macleay, a man of education and real genius, who in 1819 and 1821 brought out a work under the title of Horae Entomoiogicae, which was soon after hailed by Vigors as containing a new revelation, and applied by him to ornithology in some vigoes.
Moreover, it veiled the honest attempts that were making both in France and Germany to find real grounds for establishing an improved state of things, and consequently the labours of De Blainville, Etienne, Geoffroy St-Hilaire and L'Herminier, of Merrem, Johannes Muller and Nitzsch-to say nothing of others-were almost wholly unknown on this side of the Channel, and even the value of the investigations of British ornithotomists of high merit, such as Macartney and Pvlacgillivray, was almost completely overlooked.
Geoffroy here maintained that the five centres of ossification existed in the duck just as in the fowl, and that the real difference of the process lay in the period at which they made their appearance, a circumstance which, though virtually proved by the preparations Cuvier had used, had been by him overlooked or misinterpreted.
He prefixed an " Idea Systematis " to his " Expositio "; and the former, which appears to represent his real opinion, differs in arrangement very considerably from the latter.
You had no real knowledge and therefore no way to make a wise decision.
The pain faded once more, and the experience became too dreamlike to be real.
You're awfully nosy not to have any real interest in this stuff.
We've got a few thousand kids in real danger of immediate, physical harm.
It's as if they might have been switched—from a real skeleton.
Why would whoever switched the bones hide the real ones back in the trunk—in a place where they were sure to be discovered?
They were supposed to look real, as were all the theater props.
Thankfully, he was too concerned with sports to get in any real trouble.