real

True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.

[T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]

Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

This is real leather.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

These are real tears!

Whose perfection farr excell’d Hers in all real dignitie

Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

a description of real life

I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real, as the dream / Had lively shadowed.

That has objective, physical existence.

No one has ever seen a real unicorn.

Really; very.

When I told him the truth, he got real mad.

Se looked at me real strange.

A commodity; see realty.

One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.

A real number.

There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."

A realist.

Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals