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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
genuine \gen"uine\, a. l. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to
   beget, in pass., to be born: cf. f. g'enuine. see
   gender.
   belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native;
   hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated;
   authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a
   genuine production; genuine materials. "true, genuine night."
   --dryden.

   syn: authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated.
        see authentic. -- gen"uinely, adv. --
        gen"uineness, n.
        1913 webster

              the evidence, both internal and external, against
              the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming.
                                                  --macaulay.
        1913 webster
see also:
gender authentic gen"uinely gen"uineness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
genuine
     adj 1: not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine picasso"; "genuine
            leather" syn: echt ant: counterfeit
     2: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine
        emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true
        grief" syn: truea, unfeigned
     3: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of
        something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a
        desert"- g.k.chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" syn: actual,
         literal, real
see also:
echt counterfeit truea unfeigned actual literal 
real 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
139 moby thesaurus words for "genuine":
   aboveboard, absolute, actual, arcadian, artless, authentic, bluff,
   blunt, bona fide, broad, brusque, bucolic, candid, card-carrying,
   de facto, dinkum, direct, downright, earnest, explicit, factual,
   fair and square, following the letter, for real, forthright,
   foursquare, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
   free-tongued, good, good-faith, heart-to-heart, historical,
   homespun, honest, honest-to-god, inartificial, ingenuous, lawful,
   legitimate, lifelike, literal, native, natural, naturalistic,
   naturelike, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open,
   open and aboveboard, openhearted, original, outspoken, pastoral,
   plain, plain-spoken, positive, proper, pukka, pure, real,
   realistic, rightful, round, rural, simon-pure, simple, sincere,
   single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, sterling,
   straight, straight-out, straight-shooting, straightforward,
   substantial, sure-enough, transparent, true, true to life,
   true to nature, true to reality, unadorned, unadulterated,
   unaffected, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming, unchecked,
   uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, uncopied, uncounterfeited,
   undeniable, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling,
   undissimulating, undistorted, unembellished, unequivocal,
   unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning,
   unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded, unimagined, unimitated,
   uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified,
   unreserved, unrestrained, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious,
   unspoiled, unsynthetic, unvarnished, up-and-up, verbal, verbatim,
   veridical, verisimilar, veritable, word-for-word





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