Dictionary Definition
real adj
1 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 [syn:
existent] [ant:
unreal]
2 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"
[syn: real(a)] [ant:
unreal]
3 being or reflecting the essential or genuine
character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude
like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal]
4 not synthetic or spurious; of real or natural
origin; "real mink"; "true gold" [syn: true]
5 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"
6 possible to be treated as fact; "tangible
evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real
benefits to the poor" [syn: tangible]
7 being value measured in terms of purchasing
power; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: nominal]
8 having substance or capable of being treated as
fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream,
neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial
things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, material] [ant: insubstantial]
9 (of property) fixed or immovable; "real
property consists of land and buildings; real estate"
10 coinciding with reality; "perceptual
error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"-
F.A.Olafson [syn: veridical]
11 founded on practical matters; "a recent
graduate experiencing the real world for the first time"
Noun
1 any rational or irrational number [syn:
real
number]
2 an old small silver Spanish coin adv : used as
intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really';
`rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very
well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a
rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, rattling] [also: reis (pl), reales (pl)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
Relating to things, from Old French reel, from Late Latin realis actual, from Latin res matter, thing, of unknown origin.Pronunciation
- rēəl, /riəl/, /"ri@l/
Homophones
Noun
- A commodity; see reality.
- One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
- A real number.
Translations
a commodity
- Japanese: 現実; 現実性, 現実味
a gender in Scandinavian languages
- Swedish: reale
mathematics: a real number
- See real number
Adjective
- That can be characterized as a confirmation of truth.
- That has physical existence.
- No one has ever seen a real unicorn because they don't exist.
- Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with
nominal.
- My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
- What is the real GNP of this polity?
- My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
- Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
- Relating to numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
- Relating to immovable tangible property.
- That is an exemplary or pungent instance of a class or type.
- This is a real problem.
- Some say he is a real hero.
- This is a real problem.
- Genuine, not faked.
- These are real tears!
- Genuine, not artificial.
- This is real leather.
- Signifying meritorious qualities or
actions especially in regards to enjoying life, prowess at sports
and success wooing potential partners.
- I'm keeping it real.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- imaginary, unreal
- i-c that has physical existence fictitious, imaginary, made-up, pretend (informal)
- imaginary
- feigned, sham, staged
- artificial, counterfeit, fake, sham
Translations
that can be characterized as a confirmation of
truth
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 真的 (zhēnde)
- Dutch: echt, echte, waar, ware
- Finnish: todellinen
- French: réel, vrai, vraie
- German: wahr, wirklich
- Greek: αληθινός
- Hindi: वास्तविक (vaastavik)
- Hungarian: igaz
- Italian: reale, vero, vera
- Japanese: 現実の
- Korean: 실제의 (silje-ui)
- Marathi: वास्तविक (vaastavik)
- Polish: prawdziwy
- Portuguese: real
- Romanian: real, adevărat
- Russian: настоящий
- Serbian: stvaran , stvarna , stvarno
- Spanish: real
- Swedish: sann, verklig
- Telugu: నిజమైన
that has physical existence
economics: having been adjusted to remove the
effects of inflation
- Japanese: 実際の; qualifier prefix 実
economics: relating to the result of the actions
of rational agents
mathematics: relating to numbers with a
one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line
- Czech: reálný
- Dutch: reëel, reële
- Finnish: reaali- (reaaliluku = real number)
- French: réel, réelle
- German: reell
- Greek: πραγματικός αριθμός (pragmatikos arithmos)
- Japanese: 実数の
- Portuguese: real
- Swedish: reell
- Telugu: వాస్తవ సంఖ్యలు = real numbers
law: relating to immovable tangible property
- Dutch: vast-
- Finnish: kiinteä (omaisuudesta)
- Japanese: 不動産の
- Polish: rzeczowy, realny
- Serbian: nekretnina
- Swedish: fast
that is an exemplary or pungent instance of a
class or type
genuine, not faked
genuine, not artificial
signifying meritorious qualities or actions
- Romanian: prea, super
- Serbian: furam svoj fazon (slang: I'm following my own ethics)
- ttbc Bulgarian: истински (1), действителен (3), недвижим (4), автентичен (5)
- ttbc Dutch: echt, echte, reëel, reële
- ttbc Interlingua: real
- ttbc Norwegian: ekte
- ttbc Romanian: adevărat (1), real (3), imobiliar (4)
- ttbc Spanish: real (1, 2, 3), auténtico (5)
- ttbc Tamil: உண்மை (uNmai)
Adverb
Translations
- See really
Anagrams
Etymology 2
Portuguese, from regalis, regalPronunciation
- : rāäl', /reɪˈɑːl/,/reI"A:l/
- : rāäl', /ɻeɪˈɑl/, /r\eI"Al/
Noun
Translations
former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's
colonies
- Bulgarian: реал
- Dutch: real
- Finnish: real
- French: réal
- Japanese: レアル
- Swedish: real
a unit of currency used in Brazil, and formerly
in Portugal
a coin worth one real
Crimean Tatar
Adjective
real- real (that can be characterized as a confirmation of truth; that has physical existence).
References
Useinov-Mireev 2002}}German
Adjective
real- That has physical existence.
- That is a version of a fact or statistic (especially in economics) that is intended to reflect key fundamental trends.
Portuguese
Adjective
real (plural: reais)- real
- royal
Noun
real m (plural: reais)- the real; real number
- (plural: reais) currency real
Related terms
- real
- royal
Romanian
Extensive Definition
Real most often refers to reality, the state of things as
they actually exist.
Real may also refer to:
Media and entertainment
- Real (L'Arc-en-Ciel album)
- Real (manga)
- RealNetworks, an Internet media provider
- A member of the band F.I.R.
- Real (Ednita Nazario Album)
Units of currency
Other meanings
- Real (galley), the flagship of Don Juan de Austria
- Real (hypermarket)
- Real, Quezon, a municipality in the Philippines
- The Real, an aspect of human psychic structure
- REAL ID Act, a piece of legislation of the United States Congress
- Real number, a concept in mathematics
- Real Madrid
- Several
parishes in Portugal
- Real (Braga) parish, located in Braga
real in Catalan: Real
real in German: Real
real in Spanish: Real (desambiguación)
real in Esperanto: Realo
real in French: Real
real in Galician: Real
real in Dutch: Real
real in Japanese: リアル
real in Polish: Real
real in Portuguese: Real
real in Russian: Реал (значения)
real in Simple English: Real
real in Ukrainian: Реал
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Gaussian integer, absolute, actual, admitting no question,
algebraic number, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, almighty, appreciable, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, awfully, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, cardinal, cardinal number,
categorically true, certain, certified, complex number,
concrete, confirmable, confirmed, corporeal, corroborated, de facto,
decimal, defective
number, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determined, differential, digital, dinkum, documentary, earnest, effectual, essential, established, even, even number, exceedingly, existent, exponential, factual, feodal, feudal, feudatory, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, finite number, following
the letter, for real, fraction, fractional, genuine, good, heartfelt, historical, honest, honest-to-God, imaginary, imaginary number,
impair, impossible, inappealable, inartificial, incontestable, incontrovertible,
indisputable,
indubitable,
infinite, infinity, integer, integral, intrinsic, irrational, irrational
number, irrefragable, irrefutable, just, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, lifelike, literal, logarithmic, logometric, loyal, manorial, material, mightily, mighty, mixed number, natural, naturalistic, negative, not in error,
numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, objectively true,
odd, official, only too, ordinal, original, pair, palpable, physical, polygonal number,
ponderable, positive, possible, powerful, powerfully, praedial, pretty, prime, prime number, proper, provable, proved, pure, pure imaginary, quite, radical, rational, rational number, real
number, realistic,
really, reciprocal, rectangular
number, right, rightful, round number,
seigneurial,
seignioral,
self-evident, sensible,
serial number, simon-pure, simple, sincere, so, solid, sterling, submultiple, substantial, substantiated, substantive, surd, sure-enough, tangible, terribly, terrifically, testable, transcendental,
transcendental number, transfinite number, true, true as gospel, true to life,
true to nature, true to reality, trusted, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unanswerable, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, unconfutable, unconfuted, uncopied, uncounterfeited,
undeniable, undenied, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undoubted, unerroneous, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfallacious, unfalse, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninvented, unlikely, unmistaken, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, validated, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verifiable, verified, verisimilar, veritable, very, whole number,
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