real

1. 1

   True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

   • City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.
2. 2

   Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

   • This is real leather.
3. 3

   Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

   • These are real tears!
4. 4

   Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

   • a description of real life
5. 5

   That has objective, physical existence.

   • No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
6. 6

   Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).

   • My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
   • What is the real GNP of this polity?
7. 7

   Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   Relating to immovable tangible property.

   • real estate; real property
10. 10

    Absolute, complete, utter.

    • This is a real problem.

syn. true · actual · authentic · genuine · heartfelt · based

ant. imaginary · nonreal · unreal · artificial · counterfeit · fake · sham · feigned

1. 1

   Really; very.UScolloquialnot-comparable

   • When I told him the truth, he got real mad.
   • Se looked at me real strange.

1. 1

   A commodity; see realty.

2. 2

   One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.

3. 3

   A real number.

   • There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Ca
4. 4

   A realist.obsolete

   • Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals

1. 1

   Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.

2. 2

   A coin worth one real.

1. 1

   A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.

2. 2

   A coin worth one real.countable

1. 1

   A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.

   • Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.
2. 2

   A coin worth one real.countable