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real

adjective

1 she treats fictional characters as if they were real people:

actual, existent, non-fictional, non-fictitious, factual;

historical;

material, physical, tangible, concrete, palpable, corporeal, substantial;

rare unimaginary, veridical.

▷antonyms unreal, imaginary.

2 do you think it could be real gold?:

genuine, authentic, bona fide;

informal honest-to-goodness, your actual, kosher;

British, informal pukka.

▷antonyms imitation, fake.

3 it's not my real name:

true, actual.

4 there were tears of real grief in his eyes:

sincere, genuine, true, unfeigned, unpretended, heartfelt, from the heart, unaffected, earnest, wholehearted, fervent, honest, truthful.

▷antonyms false.

5 he was a real man with manly pursuits:

proper, true, rightly so called;

informal regular;

archaic very.

6 you made me look a real idiot:

complete, utter, thorough, absolute, total, prize, perfect, veritable;

British, informal right, proper;

Australian, New Zealand, informal fair;

archaic arrant.

adverb

North American, informal

that was real good of you:

very, extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, especially, tremendously, immensely, vastly, hugely;

extraordinarily, extra, excessively, overly, over, abundantly, inordinately, singularly, significantly, distinctly, outstandingly, uncommonly, unusually, decidedly, particularly, eminently, supremely, highly, remarkably, really, truly, mightily, thoroughly;

all that, to a great extent, most, so, too;

Scottish unco;

French très;

Northern English right;

informal terrifically, awfully, terribly, devilishly, madly, majorly, seriously, desperately, mega, ultra, oh-so, too-too, stinking, mucho, damn, damned, too … for words;

informal , dated devilish, hellish, frightfully;

British, informal ever so, well, bloody, jolly, dead, dirty, fair;

North American, informal mighty, powerful, awful, plumb, darned, way, bitching, mad;

South African, informal lekker;

archaic exceeding, sore.

real (1) Oxford Dictionary of English