adverb
- With devotion.
- usage: "He served his master devotedly"
Devotedly and Really
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
adverb
- 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"
- 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"
- synonyms: actually
- 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"
- 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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University