Really crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Really” are VERY, with 4 letters. Below are 6 answers from 4 to 9 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

VERY 4 letters · adverb

used to give emphasis “she was very gifted”

TRULY 5 letters · adverb

in accordance with truth or fact or reality “she was now truly American”

SIMPLY 6 letters · adverb

absolutely; altogether; really “we are simply broke”

ACTUALLY 8 letters · adverb

in actual fact “to be nominally but not actually independent”

GENUINELY 9 letters · adverb

in accordance with truth or fact or reality “a genuinely open society”

What “really” means

• adverb: in accordance with truth or fact or reality (“they don't really listen to us”)
• adverb: in actual fact
• adverb: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) (“really, you shouldn't have done it”)
• adverb: used to give emphasis (“a really enjoyable evening”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as REALLY, and words whose definition is REALLY. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.