Main entry: rattling, real, really, very
Definition: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
Usage: she was very gifted; he played very well; a really enjoyable evening; I'm real sorry about it; a rattling good yarn
Main entry: genuinely, truly, really
Definition: in accordance with truth or fact or reality
Usage: she was now truly American; a genuinely open society; they don't really listen to us
Main entry: in truth, really, truly
Definition: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
Usage: in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire; really, you shouldn't have done it; a truly awful book
Definition: in actual fact
Usage: to be nominally but not actually independent; no one actually saw the shark; large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt