real

real

real¹ [rē′əl, rēl]

adj.

[OFr < ML realis < L res, thing < IE base * rei-, property, thing > Sans rai, wealth, property]

1. existing or happening as or in fact; actual, true, etc.; not merely seeming, pretended, imagined, fictitious, nominal, or ostensible

2.

a) authentic; genuine

b) not pretended; sincere

3. designating wages or income as measured by purchasing power

4. Law of or relating to permanent, immovable things [real property]

5. Math. designating or of the part of a complex number that is not imaginary: all irrational and rational numbers are real numbers

6. Optics of or relating to an image made by the actual meeting of light rays at a point

7. Philos. existing objectively; actual (not merely possible or ideal), or essential, absolute, ultimate (not relative, derivative, etc.)

n.

anything that actually exists, or reality in general: with the

adv.

Informal very

SYN.- TRUE

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Slang real or really

real² [rē′əl; ] Sp [ re äl′]

n.

pl. reals or Sp. reales [re ä′les] [Sp & Port, lit., royal < L regalis: see REGAL]

a former monetary unit and silver coin of Spain and its possessions

real³ [re äl′]

n.

1. sing. of REIS pl. reais

2. [Port: see REAL²] the basic monetary unit of Brazil: see the table of monetary units in the Reference Supplement