1. Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
   "real people, not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"; "real objects";
   - existent
    
2. No less than what is stated; worthy of the name
   "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"; "the real reason"; "real war"
    
3. 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"
    
4. Capable of being treated as fact
   "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor";
   - tangible
    
5. Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
   "her real motive";
   - actual, genuine, literal
    
6. (economics) of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation
   "real wages"; "real prices"; "real income"
    
7. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
   "the real world";
   - substantial, material
    
8. (of property) fixed or immovable
   "real property consists of land and buildings"
    
9. Coinciding with reality
   "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to real perception";
   - veridical

1. Used as an intensifier
   "I'm real sorry about it";
   - very, really, rattling [informal], thoroughly, cracking [Brit, informal], dirty [Brit, informal], mucho [informal], rotten [informal], massively [informal], jolly [Brit, informal], magnificently, splendidly, awesomely [informal], tremendously [informal]

1. Any rational or irrational number
   "Pi is an example of a real number";
   - real number

1. An old small silver Spanish coin
    
2. The basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos

Sounds like: reading, reeding, r, real, ree

Derived forms: realer, reis, reales, realest, reals

See also: actual, concrete, documentary, echt, factual, genuine, historical, material, objective, proper, realism, realistic, reality, realness, serious, sincere, solidness, substantiality, substantialness, tangible, true, true-life

Type of: Brazilian monetary unit, coin, complex number, complex quantity, imaginary, imaginary number

Antonym: nominal, unreal

Encyclopedia: Real, Puerto Rico