Definition: not fake or counterfeit
Usage: a genuine Picasso; genuine leather
Similar words: bona fide, authentic, unquestionable, veritable
Definition: not counterfeit or copied
Usage: an authentic signature; a bona fide manuscript; an unquestionable antique; photographs taken in a veritable bull ring
Similar words: documented, attested, authenticated
Definition: established as genuine
Definition: not forged
Usage: a good dollar bill
Similar words: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, sure-enough, old
Definition: (used informally especially for emphasis)
Usage: a real honest-to-god live cowboy; had us a high old time; went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel
Synonyms: unfeigned, true, genuine
Definition: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
Usage: genuine emotion; her interest in people was unfeigned; true grief
Similar words: sincere
Definition: open and genuine; not deceitful
Usage: he was a good man, decent and sincere; felt sincere regret that they were leaving; sincere friendship
Synonyms: genuine, literal, actual, real
Definition: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
Usage: her actual motive; a literal solitude like a desert- G.K.Chesterton; a genuine dilemma
Similar words: true
Definition: consistent with fact or reality; not false
Usage: the story is true; it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true- B. Russell; the true meaning of the statement