genuineadjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn/us/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn/B2 If something is genuine, it is real and exactly what it appears to be:
genuine leather
If it is a genuine Michelangelo drawing, it will sell for millions.
C1 If people or emotions are genuine, they are honest and sincere:
He's a very genuine person.
Machiko looked at me with genuine surprise - "Are you really going?" she said.
More examples
- He has demonstrated a genuine interest in the project.
- A number of forged works of art have been sold as genuine.
- In an indiscreet moment, the president let his genuine opinions be known.
- The police are trying to sift out the genuine warnings from all the hoax calls they have received.
- I'm not surprised the offer wasn't genuine, it sounded too good to be true.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
True, real, false, and unreal
- actual
- actuality
- actually
- all that glitters is not gold idiom
- apocryphal
- fairy tale
- faithful
- false
- falsely
- fictional
- glitter
- gritty
- nominal
- pretend
- proper
- properly
- properly speaking idiom
- pukka
- realistic
- well founded
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Honesty, openness & sincerity
genuinely
adverb uk/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn.li/us/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn.li/
Examples
- Most politicians genuinely believe they are incorruptible.
- He is genuinely motivated by a desire to help people.
- He made all the right noises about my audition but I couldn't tell if he was genuinely impressed.
- Most of the unemployed are not work-shy and genuinely do want jobs.
- She was genuinely pleased when he arrived.
B2 really:
I'm genuinely sorry for what I said.
genuineness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn.nəs/us/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn.nəs/
Idiom(s)
the genuine article