Real
[riːl] or ['riəl]
Definition
(noun.) an old small silver Spanish coin.
(noun.) the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos.
(adj.) capable of being treated as fact; 'tangible evidence'; 'his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor' .
(adj.) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; 'real objects'; 'real people; not ghosts'; 'a film based on real life'; 'a real illness'; 'real humility'; 'Life is real! Life is earnest!'- Longfellow .
(adj.) of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation; 'real prices'; 'real income'; 'real wages' .
(adj.) not to be taken lightly; 'statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems'; 'to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real' .
(adj.) (of property) fixed or immovable; 'real property consists of land and buildings' .
(adj.) no less than what is stated; worthy of the name; 'the real reason'; 'real war'; 'a real friend'; 'a real woman'; 'meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal'; 'it's time he had a real job'; 'it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money' .
Typed by Edmund--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
(a.) Royal; regal; kingly.
(a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
(a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
(a.) Relating to things, not to persons.
(a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
(a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
(n.) A realist.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Actual, veritable, substantial, substantive, absolute, positive, actually being or existing; not imaginary, or supposititious; not fictitious.[2]. True, genuine, not counterfeited, not factitious, not artificial.[3]. Intrinsic, internal, essential.[4]. (Law.) Not personal.
Typist: Lolita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Actual, veritable, existent, authentic, legitimate, true, genuine, developed
ANT:Fictitious, imaginary, unreal, nonexistent, untrue, false, artificial,spurious, counterfeit, factitious, adulterated, assumed, pretended, potential,possible
Edited by Astor
Definition
n. a Spanish coin 100 of which=? sterling.
adj. actually existing: not counterfeit or assumed: true: genuine: sincere: authentic: (law) pertaining to things fixed as lands or houses.—adj. Rē′alisable that may be realised.—n. Realisā′tion act of realising or state of being realised: a realising sense or feeling.—v.t. Rē′alise to make real: to bring into being or act: to accomplish: to convert into real property or money: to obtain as a possession: to feel strongly: to comprehend completely: to bring home to one's own experience.—n. Rē′aliser one who realises.—p.adj. Rē′alising serving to make real or bring home to one as a reality: conversion of property into money.—ns. Rē′alism the medieval doctrine that general terms stand for real existences—opp. to Nominalism: the doctrine that in external perception the objects immediately known are real existences: the tendency in art to accept and to represent things as they really are—opp. to Idealism—a method of representation without idealisation raised by modern French writers into a system claiming a monopoly of truth in its artistic treatment of the facts of nature and life; Rē′alist one who holds the doctrine of realism: one who believes in the existence of the external world.—adj. Rēalist′ic pertaining to the realists or to realism: life-like.—adv. Rēalist′ically.—n. Rēal′ity that which is real and not imaginary: truth: verity: (law) the fixed permanent nature of real property.—adv. Rē′ally in reality: actually: in truth.—ns. Rē′alness the condition of being real; Rē′alty land with houses trees minerals &c. thereon: the ownership of or property in lands—also Real estate.—Real presence (see Presence); Real school a modern German preparatory scientific or technical school—the highest grade being the Real gymnasium or first-class modern school as opp. to the gymnasium proper or classical school.
Typist: Maxine
Examples
- But pride--where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It will by no means follow, however, that the real exchange was against it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The fellow that was trading for her didn't want her baby; and she was one of your real high sort, when her blood was up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- James, of New York, the latter being probably its real inventor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In other words, Edison's real work has seldom been seriously discussed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With a real box for the letters, and all complete,' said the Honourable Mr. Crushton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The table stood in the same place, close by the bedside, and on it, in its real proportions and appearance, was the shape so often repeated. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The real reason lay in the reluctance which Mr. Holmes has shown to the continued publication of his experiences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We are now in sight of the real 'concentrates,' which are conveyed to dryer No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They seemed to take a real pleasure in it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They shall behold the antipodes of what is real--for I will appear to live--while I am--dead. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This was known as the Piece of Eight (meaning eight reals), the curve being a partial representation of the figure 8. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checker: Myrna