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real
Synonyms and Antonyms of real
- this shirt is real silk, not polyester
bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, mock, phony (also phoney), pseudo, sham, spurious, suppositious, supposititious, unauthentic, unreal
- asked her parents if the Tooth Fairy was real
attested, authenticated, confirmed, demonstrated, established, proven, substantiated, valid, validated, verified
incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, inescapable, irrefutable, undeniable, unquestionable
believable, convincing, literal, realistic, unmistakable, verifiable
authentic, bona fide, real-life, real-world
absolute, certain, final, hard, objective, palpable, positive, substantial, tangible
- real folk who don't put on airs
artless, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), natural, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious
childlike, dewy-eyed, gee-whiz, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, persuasible, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed
spontaneous, unforced, unstudied
candid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguarded
exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary
critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, wary
cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise
civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-faced
arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wily
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
real
Synonyms and Antonyms of real
- this fish tastes real good
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, wholly
exceptionally, notably, remarkably
considerably, extensively, significantly, substantially
appreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visibly
astronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentally
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