real-ly
English edit
Etymology edit
The suffix is hyphenated to better distinguish the literal-meaning adverb from the intensifier really.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
real-ly (comparative more real-ly, superlative most real-ly)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of really (“in a way or manner that is real, not unreal”)
- 1892, The Philosophical Review, volume I, number 5, page 541:
- If it did, there would be no distinction between real and unreal, between what is 'real-ly' presented and 'merely imagined,' between the self and the world, and there would be no such thing as thought.