'Real' definitions:
Definition of 'real'
(from WordNet)
adverb
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, real, rattling]
adjective
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: real, existent] [ant: unreal]
adjective
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" [ant: unreal]
adjective
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"
adjective
Capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real, tangible]
adjective
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, real]
adjective
Of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: nominal]
adjective
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, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial]
adjective
(of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings"
adjective
Coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson [syn: veridical, real]
noun
Any rational or irrational number [syn: real number, real]
noun
The basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos
noun
An old small silver Spanish coin
Definition of 'Real'
From: GCIDE
- Real \Re*al"\ (r[asl]*[aum]l"), a. Royal; regal; kingly. [Obs.] "The blood real of Thebes." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Real'
From: GCIDE
- Real \Re"al\ (r[=e]"al), a. [LL. realis, fr. L. res, rei, a thing: cf. F. r['e]el. Cf. Rebus.]
- 1. Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life. [1913 Webster]
- Whereat I waked, and found Before mine eyes all real, as the dream Had lively shadowed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger. [1913 Webster]
- Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Relating to things, not to persons. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property. [1913 Webster]
- Chattels real (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel.
- Real action (Law), an action for the recovery of real property.
- Real assets (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor.
- Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. --Blackstone.
- Real estate or Real property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. --Kent. --Burrill.
- Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation.
- Real servitude, called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. --Erskine. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Actual; true; genuine; authentic.
- Usage: Real, Actual. Real represents a thing to be a substantive existence; as, a real, not imaginary, occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed; and, hence, when we wish to prove a thing real, we often say, "It actually exists," "It has actually been done." Thus its reality is shown by its actuality. Actual, from this reference to being acted, has recently received a new signification, namely, present; as, the actual posture of affairs; since what is now in action, or going on, has, of course, a present existence. An actual fact; a real sentiment. [1913 Webster]
- For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Real'
From: GCIDE
- Real \Re"al\ (r[=e]"al), n. [Sp., fr. real royal, L. regalis. See Regal, and cf. Ree a coin.] A former small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system. [1913 Webster]
- Note: A
- real of plate (coin) varied in value according to the time of its coinage, from 121/2 down to 10 cents, or from 61/2 to 5 pence sterling. The
- real vellon, or money of account, was nearly equal to five cents, or 21/2 pence sterling. In 1871 the coinage of Spain was assimilated to that of the Latin Union, of which the franc is the unit. The peseta was introduced in 1868, and continued as the official currency of Spain (splitting temporarily into Nationalist and Republican pesetas during the civil war of the 1930's) until 2002. In 2002, the euro became the official currency of Spain and most other nations of the European Union. [1913 Webster + PJC]
Definition of 'Real'
From: GCIDE
- Real \Re"al\ (r[=e]"al), n. A realist. [Obs.] --Burton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'real'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Gaussian integer,
- 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,
- word-for-word
Real -- U.S. County in Texas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Real -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000) :
3047
Housing Units (2000) :
2007
Land area (2000) :
699.912987 sq. miles (1812.766238 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.130253 sq. miles (0.337354 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
700.043240 sq. miles (1813.103592 sq. km)
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
29.776707 N, 99.872864 W
Words containing 'Real'
- Realness,
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