Genuinely

Definitions: Genuinely

Genuinely

Adverb

1. In accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us".

2. Genuinely; with authority; "it is authentically British".

Date "genuinely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references)

Synonyms: Genuinely

Synonyms: authentically (adv), really (adv), truly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Genuinely

English words defined with "genuinely": authentically ♦ good ♦ just ♦ really ♦ truly ♦ upright ♦ virtuous. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He seems to genuinely want to help you. And that's a rare thing, for people like us. (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer)
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Domain	Title
Books	More Mysteries and Miracles of California: Guidebook to the Genuinely Bizarre in the Golden Gate State (reference) Mysteries & Miracles of Colorado: Guide Book to the Genuinely Bizarre (reference) Mysteries and Miracles of New Mexico: A Guide Book to the Genuinely Bizarre, in the Land of Enchantment (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal	Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
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Author	Date	Quotation
United Nations	1948	This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Despite the fact that nine out of ten franchising systems in Sweden are genuinely Swedish, the concept of franchising is connected to American firms such as McDonald's, and Burger King. As franchising is not an advertised system, only a few are aware that the Swedish Post, Pressbyran and Electrolux are some of Sweden's largest franchise companies. (references)
Civil Liberties	Tajikistan	There are 36 nongovernmental television stations, not all of which are operating at any one time and only a handful of which can be considered genuinely independent. (references)
	Korea	Foreigners who have met with representatives of these organizations believe that some are genuinely religious but note that others appear to know little about religious dogma, liturgy, or teaching. (references)
Political Economy	Brunei	Constitutional provisions notwithstanding, citizens do not genuinely exercise the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and association. (references)
Political Rights	Tajikistan	This fact, combined with a lack of democratic culture, results in a legislative branch that is not genuinely independent of the executive branch. (references)
	Congo	The President convenes the Interim National Legislature, the CNT. The CNT was elected at the 1998 national reconciliation forum, which included some representatives of opposition political parties and nongovernmental actors; however, the event was orchestrated by the executive branch and did not constitute a sufficiently broad-based forum from which to elect a genuinely representative legislature. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	It's sad to say, but history has not given us many examples of genuinely selfless people.
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"Genuinely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Genuinely" is used about 1,413 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	1,413	5,691

Language		Translations for "genuinely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		regtig (indeed, really, truly), darem (absolutely, genuinly, indeed, really, truly). (various references)

Albanian		vërtet (actually, fairly, indeed, literally, properly, really, truly, verily, yeah, ywis), sinqerisht (frankly, openly, sincerely, Square, truly). (various references)

Arabic		‏على نحو أصيل, ‏بصدق (glimpse of hope, true, truly, whole heartedly), ‏بإخلاص (heartily, in earnest, open-heartedly, sincerely, truly, whole heartedly). (various references)

Bulgarian		истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, precious, proper, pucka, pukka, pure, real, regular, regularly, right, right-down, sheer, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual), искрено (frankly, heartily, in good faith, sincerely, truly, unfeignedly). (various references)

Catalan		veritablement (absolutely, indeed, really, truly). (various references)

Chinese		真正地 (really, Re-ally). (various references)

Czech		upřímnì (openly, sincerely, truly, unreservedly), skuteènì (actually, really, truly), opravdu (actually, in fact, indeed, really, sincerely, so, sure enough, truly), nelíèenì. (various references)

Danish		faktisk (actually, as a matter of fact, in fact, in practice, indeed, really, truly). (various references)

Dutch		echt (absolutely, authentic, genuine, indeed, marriage, matrimony, really, true, truly). (various references)

Esperanto		reale (indeed, really, truly). (various references)

French		vraiment (genuinly). (various references)

German		echt (authentic, bona fide, fast, genuine, legit, natural, positively, proper, properly, pukka, real, really, sincere, thorough, true, truthful, typical, unaffected, unfeigned, veritable), wirklich (absolutely, actual, factual, genuine, indeed, intrinsic, intrinsically, just, literally, objective, objectively, positively, practical, proper, quite, real, really, substantial, sure enough, titular, true, truly). (various references)

Greek		γνήσια, αληθινά. (various references)

Hebrew		בכ� ות (on the level, sincerely, squarely). (various references)

Hungarian		hitelesen (authentically), nyíltan (aboveboard, avowedly, baldly, bluntly, candidly, confessedly, fair and square, flat, frankly, honestly, in the face of day, openly, outright, overtly, plump, professedly, sincerely, to speak out, unreservedly), őszintén (aboveboard, candidly, fair and square, forthright, outright, plainly, sincerely, straight, to make a clean breast of it). (various references)

Italian		infatti (absolutely, as a matter of fact, genuinly, in effect, in fact, indeed, really, truly), davvero (absolutely, earnest, genuinly, indeed, really, so it does, so it is, sure, truly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		本� �小説 (genuinely attempted novel). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほ�"かくしょうせつ (genuinely attempted novel). (various references)

Korean		진짜� �으로 (really, Re-ally). (various references)

Papiamen		realmente (indeed, really, truly). (various references)

Pig Latin		enuinelygay

Polish		rzeczywiście. (various references)

Portuguese		genuinamente, não falsificado (true, unadulterated, uncooked), autenticamente (authentically, sincerely). (various references)

Russian		неподдельно, искренне (heartily, honestly, inly, sincerely, wholeheartedly). (various references)

Scottish		gu dearbh (absolutely, certainly, indeed, really, truly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		iskreno (above board, bluntly, frankly, open minded, sincerely, singly). (various references)

Spanish		verdaderamente (absolutely, correctly, genuinly, indeed, properly, quite, really, rightfully, truly). (various references)

Swedish		sannerligen (absolutely, in sooth, indeed, really, truly, verily, veritably). (various references)

Turkish		gerçekten (actually, by my troth, for real, forsooth, honest, honest injun, honestly, in fact, in point of fact, in sooth, in troth, in very deed, indeed, it's no joke, of a verity, quite, real, really, regularly, sure enough, true, truly, yea, yes indeed), gerçek olarak. (various references)

Ukranian		щиро (cordially, ex animo, heartily, openly, outspokenly, simply, sincerely), непідробно. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Genuinely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geniuenly, genuienlly, genuienly, genuinly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "genuinely" (pronounced je"nyuwunlē or je"nyuwwī'nlē)
4	-u n l ē	brazenly, certainly, clandestinely, commonly, evenly, gentlemanly, heavenly, humanly, matronly, mistakenly, openly, slovenly, suddenly, uncertainly, uncommonly, unevenly, wantonly.
3	-n l ē	benignly, cleanly, divinely, finely, greenly, humanely, keenly, lonely, mainly, manly, obscenely, only, plainly, sternly, stubbornly, thinly, ungainly, vainly.
3	-n l ē	benignly, brazenly, certainly, clandestinely, cleanly, commonly, divinely, evenly, finely, gentlemanly, greenly, heavenly, humanely, humanly, keenly, lonely, mainly, manly, matronly, mistakenly, obscenely, only, openly, plainly, slovenly, sternly, stubbornly, suddenly, thinly, uncertainly, uncommonly, unevenly, ungainly, vainly, wantonly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-u-y"
	-2 letters: genuine, guyline, ingenue.
	-3 letters: engine, ennuye, eyeing, gunnel, lineny, lungee, lungyi, yeelin.
	-4 letters: elegy, ennui, eying, genie, ginny, gluey, guile, gunny, ingle, liege, linen, liney, lingy, lunge, lungi, lying.
	-5 letters: eely, eyen, eyne, gene, genu, gien, glee, glen, gley, glue, iglu, inly, lien, lieu, line, ling, linn, liny, luge, lune, lung, luny, nene, nine, ugly, yule.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-u-y"
	+2 letters: unfeelingly, unfeignedly, unweetingly.
	+4 letters: eugeosyncline, unbelievingly, unrelentingly.
	+5 letters: eugeosynclinal, eugeosynclines, neurogenically.
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