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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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