Meaning of GENUINE
| Pronunciation: | | 'jenyooin
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- [adj] not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
- [adj] not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"
- [adj] 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"
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GENUINE is a 7 letter word that starts with G. |
| | Synonyms: | | actual, attested, authentic, authenticated, bona fide, documented, echt, good, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, literal, old(a), real, sure-enough(a), true, true(a), unfeigned, unquestionable, veritable |
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| | Antonyms: | | counterfeit, imitative | | |
| | See Also: | | existent, honest, honorable, sincere | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gen"u*ine\, a. [L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to
beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. g['e]nuine. 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"u*ine*ly}, adv. --
{Gen"u*ine*ness}, n.
The evidence, both internal and external, against
the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming.
--Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, straightforward, straight-out, straight-shooting, 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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