really
/ˈrɪəli/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈrɪəli/
really
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
real - ly -> really
Myanmar meaning
(adv) အမှန်စင်စစ်။
Full entry
really /'ri:ǝli; Brit also 'rǝl-/ adv
၁။ အမှန်အားဖြင့်။ တကယ်။ What do you really think about it? ❍ Don't worry—it's not really that important. ❍ Your name is on the car's documents, but who really owns it? ❍ You're not really supposed to go in there. ❍ HOPEFUL
၂။ တကယ့်ကို။ a really charming person ❍ a really cold/fast/long journey. ❍ QUITE
၃။ (အံ့အားသင့်မှု၊ စိတ်ဝင်စားမှု၊ အနည်းငယ် သံသယရှိမှု၊ မကျေနပ်မှုကို ပြလိုသောအားဖြင့်) ဟုတ်လား။ တကယ်လား။ ‘We're going to Japan next month. ’ ‘Oh, really?’ ❍ ‘She's resigned. ’ ‘Really? Are you sure?’ ❍ You really shouldn't smoke. ❍ ‘Shut up!’ ‘Well, really!’
More examples
- I’m really hungry.
- Some really useful information
- She really enjoys working with young children.
- We’ve all been working really hard.
- I really must settle down to some serious work.
- There’s really no need to worry.
- I really ought to have phoned Annie to let her know we’d be late.
- [really and truly] : Do you really and truly believe that he’ll come back to you?
- Rigby had never really recovered from his knee injury.
- Are you really sure that you want to marry this man?
- It isn’t really a dictionary – it’s a sort of phrase book.
- Hamlet isn’t really mad – he’s just pretending to be.
- We’ll never know what really happened.
- Everyone seems to have admired Diana, but what was she really like as a person?
- ‘I’ve decided to move back to York.’ ‘Really? But why?’
- ‘Emma will be 21 in April.’ ‘Will she really? I hadn’t realized.’
- ‘It was the best holiday we’ve ever had .’ ‘Oh, really?’
- Really, Amanda! What a dreadful thing to say!
Synonyms
actually, in fact, in truth, in reality, in actuality, truly, in actual fact, if truth be told, certainly, absolutely, admittedly, as a matter of fact, assuredly, authentically, beyond doubt, categorically, de facto, easily, especially, exceedingly, for real, genuinely, honestly, in effect, in point of fact, indeed, indubitably, legitimately, literally, no ifs ands or buts, nothing else but, of course, positively, precisely, sincerely, straight up, surely, thoroughly, truthfully, undoubtedly, unmistakably, unquestionably, verily, veritably, very, well
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