Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

for real

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.58 in modern English

Syllables: for re-al
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Genuine, true; serious, earnest.

Informal

adv

Genuinely, truly.

Example Sentences

"Are you seriously like actually for real?"
"Nobody is paying $500 for this shit. Be so fucking for real right now."
"[…] demonstration sponsored by the library may make the library more' "for real" to the inner-city person"
"Some people / Are up to no good, ah / But baby, I'm for real / I'm as real as real can get"
"Oh, what do you think about that / Now you know how I feel / Say you could handle my love, are you for real?"
"This recipe takes two hours to cook, for real!"

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more for real (comparative) most for real (superlative) fr (alternative, abbreviation) for-real (alternative, usually) forreal (alternative) foreal (alternative) for reals (alternative) for realsies (alternative)

Derived Forms

fetchy

Phrases

for real and for true for real life for realsies for reals

Synonyms

earnestly

Antonyms

for fake

Questions

What does for real mean?: Genuine, true; serious, earnest.

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