1real1 (ˈrɪəl
)
Definitions
adjective
- existing or occurring in the physical world; not imaginary, fictitious, or theoretical; actual
- (prenominal) true; actual; not false ⇒
the real reason
- (prenominal) deserving the name; rightly so called ⇒
a real friend
a real woman
- not artificial or simulated; genuine ⇒
real sympathy
real fur
- (of food, etc) traditionally made and having a distinct flavour ⇒
real ale
real cheese
- philosophy existent or relating to actual existence (as opposed to nonexistent, potential, contingent, or apparent)
- (prenominal) economics (of prices, incomes, wages, etc) considered in terms of purchasing power rather than nominal currency value
- (prenominal) denoting or relating to immovable property such as land and tenements ⇒
real property
Compare personal - physics Compare image (sense 2)
- mathematics involving or containing real numbers alone; having no imaginary part
- music
- (of the answer in a fugue) preserving the intervals as they appear in the subject
- denoting a fugue as having such an answer Compare tonal (sense 3)
- informal (intensifier) ⇒
a real fool
a real genius
- See the real thing
noun
- short for real number
- See the real
- See for real
Alternative Forms
ˈrealness nounWord Origin
C15: from Old French réel , from Late Latin reālis , from Latin rēs thingSynonyms
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2real2 (reɪˈɑːl;Spanish reˈal)
Definitions
noun
Word forms: plural, reals, reales, Spanishreˈales
- a former small Spanish or Spanish-American silver coin
Word Origin
C17: from Spanish, literally: royal, from Latin rēgālis; see regalC17: from Spanish, literally: royal, from Latin ; see 13real3 (Portuguese reˈal)
Definitions
noun
Word forms: plural, reis, rəjʃ
- the standard monetary unit of Brazil, divided into 100 centavos
- a former coin of Portugal
Word Origin
ultimately from Latin rēgālisregalultimately from Latin 1Translations
- British English:
real
Something that is real is true and is not imagined.No, it wasn't a dream. It was real.ˈrɪəl ADJECTIVE No, it wasn't a dream. It was real.
- Spanish:
real
adj
- French:
vrai
adj
- German:
echt
adj
- Chinese: 真实的 adj
- Arabic: وَاقِعِيّ adj
- Portuguese: real adj
- Russian: настоящий adj настоящая
- Croatian: stvaran adj stvarna
- Czech: skutečný adj
- Danish: virkelig adj
- Dutch: echt adj
- Finnish: todellinen adj
- Greek: πραγματικός adj πραγματική
- Italian: vero adj vera
- Japanese: 実在の no_posp
- Korean: 현실의 adj
- Norwegian: virkelig adj
- Polish: prawdziwy adj prawdziwa
- Brazilian Portuguese: real adj
- European Spanish:
real
adj
- Swedish: äkta adj
- Thai: แท้จริง adj
- Turkish: gerçek adj
- Vietnamese: có thực adj
Usage examples
The chance of being spotted by a Defender scout was too real to be ignored.
, TREASON KEEP (2001)But the real saviours of this church were the locals, whose tireless fundraising has now achieved a complete, breathtaking restoration.
Country Life (2004)There is a very real possibility of a conflict of interest leading to one gaining an ascendancy or crowding out the other.
Irish Times (2002)This is the real fallout from the virus; the dusty, sleepy claustrophobia we fear is settling on our shoulders.
Glasgow Herald (2001)For some of us our external reality is more real than our internal reality.
, BEYOND FEAR (2002)