reals

Variant of real

real definition

real (rē′əl, rēl)

adjective

  1. existing or happening as or in fact; actual, true, etc.; not merely seeming, pretended, imagined, fictitious, nominal, or ostensible
    1. authentic; genuine
    2. 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.)

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

noun

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

adverb

Informal very
real Idioms

for real

Slang real or really

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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