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Definition: Genuine |
GenuineAdjective1. Not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather". 2. Not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "genuine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Terms applied to wines which are reliable as regards purity, variety and origin. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: GenuineSynonyms: actual (adj), echt (adj), literal (adj), real (adj), true(a) (adj), unfeigned (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: counterfeit (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior; above par; nice, fine; genuine; (true). |
Truth | Genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodox; a; official, ex officio. |
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Screenplays | I'm a genuine countess with a lot of dough, and if that's your wife she's a tub of guts (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.) People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) You two are going to Farro Island and find me a genuine monster whether he exists or not (Kingukongu tai Gojira; writing credit: Bruce Howard; Paul Mason) Genuine, double-rectified bust head (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) Steele's a genuine hero (Balto; writing credit: David Cohen; Elana Lesser) | |
Lyrics | You know I only say it 'cause I'm truly genuine (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill) | |
Clever | Genuine imitation (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Genuine (1920) | |
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O & C title: genuine settlers 160 acre limit. Credit: Unknown. | ![]() | The Tory mill. The original genuine experiment is published this day. Credit: Library of Congress. | |
![]() | Our only true medical diploma since 1871--none other genuine / Why Dr. Carl Both refused to pay further assessments to the Mass. Medical Society (Suffolk District). Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Yes, this er Professor Van Dyke says there are only thirty-five genuine Rembrandts ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Civilization builders. Lady, today I must tell you that coat is not genuine Alaska ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Great Pawnee Bill shows. The only genuine wild west. Touring America ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | A. Thomas & Son celebrated grape brand genuine chewing tobacco. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The old water power. Kenyon's genuine Rhode Island johnnycake flour mill in Usquepaugh, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | People's Progressive Party, XX Congress towards a genuine people's revolutionary government, Annandale, 4-6 Aug. '79. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | PPP, 5 demands for genuine independence. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Abd-el-raham | I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. |
Baruch Spinoza | What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness. Happiness is the rational understanding of life and the world. |
Honore De Balzac | To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. |
Horace Greeley | Wisdom is never dear, provided the article is genuine. |
Rufus Choate | Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | "The man that hath no music in his soul" can indeed never be a genuine poet. |
Schiller | Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue. |
W. Nevins | Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic; it goes about doing good. |
Washington Irving | The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. |
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John Locke | 1690 | By common-wealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is common-wealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not; for there may be subordinate communities in a government; and city amongst us has a quite different notion from common-wealth: and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word common-wealth in that sense, in which I find it used by King James the first; and I take it to be its genuine signification; which if any body dislike, I consent with him to change it for a better. (Second Treatise of Government) |
United Nations | 1948 | The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | As Harriet described it, there had been an interesting mixture of wounded affection and genuine delicacy in their behaviour |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | This seems to me to be genuine charity |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He gave, moreover, some of those repartees which certainly have in them the genuine sparkle |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor |
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Business | U.S. suppliers/manufacturers of genuine and after-market automotive parts are already well known for their products. (references) | |
New Zealand has no regulations that prevent used or imitation automotive parts being used in replace of genuine parts. (references) | ||
To remedy this latter problem, STPS officials require evidence that unions are genuine and representative before registering them. (references) | ||
Children | Peru | The Government does not allocate sufficient funds to make genuine integration of persons with disabilities into the economy possible. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Korea | Genuine religious freedom does not exist. (references) |
South Africa | A ruling by the Supreme Court in 1998 decreed that journalists who could prove that they had taken all the steps necessary to verify that the information they obtained was genuine and that the articles published as a consequence were reasonable and not negligent would not be liable for defamation. (references) | |
Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | It has been criticized for not implementing genuine democratic reforms. (references) |
Uk | The OFT seeks to ensure that the franchise promotes a genuine product or service, and is not a pyramid sales scheme. (references) | |
Vietnam | Warranties are also an effective marketing tool to assure customers that they are buying a genuine, high quality product. (references) | |
Human Rights | Honduras | Defendants and their attorneys are not always genuine participants in the process, despite rights accorded under law. (references) |
Pakistan | The Musharraf Government stated that it would not target genuine business failures or small defaulters and does not appear to have done so. The NAB was given broad powers to prosecute corruption cases, and the accountability courts were expected to try such cases within 30 days. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Namibia | In some cases, the Government has withheld recognition from genuine traditional leaders who have sympathy for the political opposition. (references) |
Minorities | Indonesia | Both male and female converts later were forced to undergo circumcision to prove that they were genuine Muslims, despite the fact that Muslim women in Maluku were not customarily circumcised. (references) |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Government officials have said that their laws reflect genuine concern for the protection of intellectual property. (references) |
Liberia | These were followed by UN sanctions in May 2001. The U.S. believes that democracy and genuine respect for human rights coupled with transparency and accountability in government remain the best paths for sustainable economic growth. (references) | |
Political Rights | Liberia | The legislature did not exercise genuine independence from the executive branch. (references) |
Singapore | This threat heightened concerns among some observers about voters' genuine freedom to change their government. (references) | |
Croatia | The Citizenship Law and electoral legislation grant citizenship, and thereby the right to vote, on purely ethnic grounds to ethnic Croats abroad with no genuine link to the country. (references) | |
Trade | Bahamas | A genuine invoice (original or copy) is required. (references) |
Netherlands | The Dutch tendency to support a level playing field in trade matters and their depth of experience in trade positions them as the genuine "neutral" traders of Europe. (references) | |
Travel | Romania | Romanians have genuine regard and admiration for Americans. (references) |
Worker Rights | Afghanistan | The country lacks a tradition of genuine labor-management bargaining. (references) |
Bulgaria | They also believe it impedes the opportunity for a genuine trade union to represent medical professionals. (references) | |
China | However, the development of genuine collective bargaining remained more potential than real during the year. (references) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | Genuine cuts did occur in the federal budget during the Clinton-Gore years in the area of defense. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | The devising and establishing of a well regulated militia would be a genuine source of legislative honor and a perfect title to public gratitude. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | One proposition is that lasting peace requires genuine understanding and active cooperation among the most powerful nations. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are ready to support a political solution that guarantees the rapid withdrawal of all Soviet troops and genuine self-determination for the Afghan people. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | I know, tonight, in some regions of our country, people are in genuine economic distress. |
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| "Genuine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Genuine" is used about 3,326 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3,326 | 2,877 |
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| USA | Genuine Parts Co |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "genuine": genuine bristol ♦ genuine document ♦ genuine parchment. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "genuine": genuine-colonial, genuine-the. | |
Ending with "genuine": non-genuine. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "genuine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i shtirë, i vërtetë (actual, authentic, bona fide, downright, effective, faithful, flesh and blood, objective, perfect, positive, practical, proper, pucka, real, right, substantial, true, truthful, uncoined, unfailing, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, virtual), i sinqertë (candid, devout, earnest, explicit, Frank, free, free-hearted, free-spoken, honest, ingenuous, onefold, open, outgiving, outspoken, plain spoken, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, Square, transparent, true, true-hearted, truthful, unaffected, unreserved, whole-souled), i çiltër (artless, candid, direct, downright, forthright, guileless, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, innocent, open, open-hearted, plain, plain spoken, simple-hearted, sincere, straight, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, unsophisticated, wholehearted). (various references) | |
Arabic | حر (free, to liberate), حقيقي (actual, authentic, effective, essential, factual, intrinsic, intrinsical, positive, proper, real, realistic, right, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, veritable, very), غير زائف (bona fide, real), صميم (absolute, bottom, core), صادق (befriend, bona fide, chum, endorse, friend, honest, indorse, plain spoken, real, sanction, sincere, true, truthful, unaffected, unfeigned, veracious, whole-hearted), صريح (bare, bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, crude, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, guileless, honest, ingenuous, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, plump, point blank, pronounced, raw, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved, unvarnished), أصيل (evening, original, proper, purebred, quaint, sincere, thoroughbred, trueborn, well bred). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оригинален (novel, original, patent, picturesque, protoplastic, provocative, unconventional, unhackneyed, unworn), автентичен (authentic, original, real, simon-pure), истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuinely, 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), искрен (bona fide, candid, cordial, deep-felt, devout, earnest, heart-to-heart, hearty, honest, outright, outspoken, plain, prayerful, sincere, single, single-eyed, unalloyed, unfeigned, unreserved, untutored). (various references) | |
Chinese | 真正 (real, true). (various references) | |
Czech | upřímný (candid, direct, fair dealing, feeling, Frank, free-hearted, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, honest, ingenuous, on the up and up, open, open-hearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward, transparent, true, true-hearted, unaffected, unreserved), skuteèný (actual, effective, existent, existing, great, historical, intrinsic, intrinsical, practical, real, true, very, virtual), ryzí (fine, pure, sincere, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated), pravý (authentic, direct, good, proper, real, right, straight, true, true born, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veritable, very), originální (imaginative, novel, original, quaint), opravdový (authentic, earnest, real, serious, sincere, undisguised, veritable), nelíèený (artless, unconcealed), nefalšovaný (unadulterated, unsophisticated), autentický (authentic). (various references) | |
Danish | ægte (authentic, true). (various references) | |
Dutch | onvervalst (authentic), authentiek (authentic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aŭtentika (authentic). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ektaður (authentic), álítandi (authentic, reliable, trustworthy). (various references) | |
Farsi | واقعی (Actual, Essential, Lifelike, Literal, Real, Right, Sterling, True, Unfeigned, Veracious, Veritable, Very, Virtual), حقیقی (Actual, Intrinsic, Real, Rightful, True, Unfeigned, Veracious), خالص (Absolute, Downright, Heartfelt, Limpid, Net, Pure, Sheer, Unadulterated, Unalloyed), اصلی (Arch, Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Original, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), اصل (Element, Germ, Inception, Maxim, Mother, Motif, Paternity, Point, Principle, Provenance, Quintessence, Real, Root, Stem, Strain), درست (Accurate, Authentic, Conscionable, Correct, Entire, Even, Exact, Integral, Just, Legitimate, Orthodox, Outandout, Perfect, Plumb, Right, Smackdab, Sock, Sound, Straight, Straightforward, True, Trustworthy, Upright, Valid, Veracious, Whole). (various references) | |
Finnish | aito (real, true). (various references) | |
French | authentique. (various references) | |
Frisian | autentyk (authentic). (various references) | |
German | echt (authentic, bona fide, fast, genuinely, legit, natural, positively, proper, properly, pukka, real, really, sincere, thorough, true, truthful, typical, unaffected, unfeigned, veritable), wirklich (absolutely, actual, factual, genuinely, indeed, intrinsic, intrinsically, just, literally, objective, objectively, positively, practical, proper, quite, real, really, substantial, sure enough, true, truly), authentisch (authentic, perfect, true). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαρός (aboveboard, clean, clear, sheer, utter), γνήσιοσ (authentic, simon-pure, sterling, true born), γνήσιος (authentic, original), βέροσ (native born, true, true blue), αυθεντικός (authentic), αληθινόσ, αληθήσ (true, truthful, veritable, very). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משולם (paid up), אמתי (actual, real, sincere, true, truthful), טבעי (inbred, natural, unstudied). (various references) | |
Hungarian | valódi (actual, authentic, intrinsic, intrinsical, proper, pure, real, simon-pure, sterling, substantial, true, true born, true to the core, veritable, very), hiteles (authentic, crediting, documentary, pukka, true, trustworthy, unexceptional), eredeti (aboriginal, initial, native, novel, original, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primordial, pristine, true, unsophisticated). (various references) | |
Indonesian | wajar (natural, without deceit), tulen (original), totok (native, original), sejati (real, true), asli (authentic, autochthnous, original). (various references) | |
Italian | genuino (authentic, honest, natural, racy, true, unadulterated, veritable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 真 (Buddhist sect originating in the thirteenth century, due, game, genuineness, hunting, just, pure, reality, right, true, truth). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きっすい (draft, natural-born, pure, sea gauge), しょうし"しょうめい (authentic), し"の (real, true, utter), し"せい (a new government or administration, application, authentic, dignity, direct Imperial rule, disposition, divinity, holiness, inborn nature, mind, nascent, nature, new birth, new face, new system, nova, petition, pure, rebirth, request, sacredness, theocracy, true), ま (demon, devil, due, evil spirit evil influence, just, pause, pure, right, room, space, time, true), ほ"ば (best place, center, galloping horse, habitat, home, runaway horse), ほ"かくてき (earnest, full-dress, fundamental, normal, real, regular, typical), じゅ"すい (pure, pure water, true, unmixed), じゅ"せい (perfect, pure, quasar), じゅ"りょう (gentle, good and obedient, innocent, meek, net weight, pure, purity, simple and kind). (various references) | |
Korean | 진짜 (real). (various references) | |
Manx | ynrick (correct, correct as behaviour, earnest, faithful, forthcoming, frank, honest, intrinsic, just, open-hearted, outright, righteous, sincere, straightforward, truthful, undeviating), jeelys (devoted, faithful, firm, sincere, staunch, steadfast, true-hearted). (various references) | |
Papiamen | outéntiko (authentic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enuinegay.(various references) | |
Polish | autentyczny (authentic). (various references) | |
Portuguese | autêntico (authentic, natural, pucka, pukka, pure, real, round, sterling, true, true-born, unadulterated, unfeigned, veritable, very), genuíno (bona fide, good, mere, natural, pucka, pukka, pure, round, solid, sterling, true). (various references) | |
Romanian | gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), veritabil (authentic, real, regular, right, sheer, staunch, sterling, true, unadulterated, veritable), sincer (above board, artless, authentic, blunt, candid, candidly, childlike, devout, downright, fair, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, guileless, heartfelt, heart-whole, hearty, honest, honestly, ingenuous, kind, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, plain, plainly, right-down, round, sincere, single, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, undisguised, unfeigned, unpretending, unreserved, well-meant), serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted), pur (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, fine, immaculate, mere, modest, pure, sheer, simple, stainless, unmixed, virginal, white), original (air hole, archetype, authentic, creative, eccentric, first hand, odd, original, originally, peculiar, queer, real, true, unique), neprefãcut (candid, natural, unfeigned), natural (careless, certainly, easy, home-bred, innocent, kind, lifelike, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, real, reasonably, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated, unvarnished), curat (absolute, bald, blank, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, honest, immaculate, neat, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), autentic (authentic, certified, exemplified, patent, right, true, very), adevãrat (actual, correct, forsooth, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, proper, quite right, real, really and truly, regular, sheer, sooth, Square, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very). (various references) | |
Russian | генуинный, неподдельный (inartificial, native, unaffected, unfeigned), подлинный (authentic, original, simon-pure, true, uncoined, veritable), истинный (proper, true, unfeigned, veritable), искренний (candid, devout, earnest, explicit, heartfelt, heart-whole, hearty, honest, outspoken, sincere, single minded, true-hearted, unaffected, unfeigned, wholehearted, whole-hearted, wholeheartedly). (various references) | |
Scottish | fìor (pure : fìoruisge, pure spring water, true). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pravi (ortho-, plumb, proper, pucka, pukka, real, sheer, simon-pure, stark, sterling, thorough, true), iskren (above board, blunt, candid, childlike, downright, fair dealing, forthright, frank, free-spoken, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, open, open minded, openhearted, outspoken, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward). (various references) | |
Spanish | genuino (authentic, pukka, sterling, true), auténtico (authentic, bona fide, pukka, real, realistic, real-life, simon-pure, solid, true, unfailing). (various references) | |
Swedish | oförfalskad (unadulterated, undiluted), genuint, gedigen (clean, native, pure, solid, sterling, workmanlike, workmanly), äkta (arrant, authentic, espouse, inartificial, kosher, legit, real, regular, right-down, true, true blue, veritable). (various references) | |
Turkish | gerçek (actual, actualities, authentic, bona fide, dinkum, earnest, exact, fact, factual, for real, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, intrinsic, literal, low down, lowdown, proper, pucka, pukka, real, reality, right, rightful, sincere, sooth, sterling, straight out, substantial, tangible, the real, the true, troth, true, truth, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veracity, veritable, Verity, very, virtual), samimi (candid, childlike, chummy, companionable, cordial, devout, earnest, familiar, folksy, forthright, Frank, free, freehearted, friendly, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, intimate, jannock, near, on the square, open armed, openhearted, outspoken, pally, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, truthful, undesigning, unequivocal, warm, whole-hearted), saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), içten (bluff, bona fide, candid, childlike, cordial, deep, deeply, devout, earnest, faithful, familiar, forthright, gut, hail-fellow-well-met, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, honest, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, ingenuous, internally, inwardly, kindly, open, open armed, openhearted, open-hearted, sincere, sincerely, true, true-hearted, truly, truthful, unaffected, undesigning, unfeigned, whole-hearted), içi dışı bir (outgoing, sincere, straight out), hilesiz (above board, guileless, honest, straightforward, unadulterated), hakiki (bona fide, dinkum, dyed in the wool, pucka, pukka, real, rightful, sterling, straight out, true, veritable), özgün (characteristic, distinctive, individual, inventive, peculiar, typical, unique, way out), öz (compact, compendious, content, core, cream, distillate, distillation, elixir, entity, epitome, essence, essential oil, extract, extraction, full, gist, goodness, guts, heartbeat, kernel, marrow, matter, meat, medulla, nucleus, own, pith, pith and marrow, pulp, quick, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, stuff, substance, substantiality, substratum, sum, whole). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tьяs (just like, real), hakyky. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | істинний (apparent, veritable), справжній (active, actual, authentic, factual, honest, intrinsic, intrinsical, natural, operative, original, practical, pukka, real, sheer, simon-pure, sincere, true, true born, unadulterated, undoubted, unfeigned, veridic, veridical, veritable, very), щирий (candid, cordial, devout, earnest, heartfelt, hearty, ingenuous, onefold, open armed, outspoken, pure-minded, simple, sincere, true-hearted, unaffected, whole-hearted, whole-souled). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xác thực th nh thật, thật (actual, really, regular, sterling, substantial, true, truly), chính cống (true-born), chân thật (artless, bluff, heart-whole, hearty, onefold, open-hearted, right-minded, round, simple-minded, single-hearded). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwirioneddol (actual, real, true), dilys (authentic, certain, sure), diledryw (pure), diffuant (sincere, unfeigned). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | genu, genuinus, germanam, germane, germanus, incorrupti, incorruptum, incorruptus, legitima, legitimam, legitime, legitimis, legitimum, pistici, pura, puram, puras, purior, purissimam, purissimas, purissimi, purissimo, purissimum, puritatem, puro, purum, purus, sincera, sinceram, sinceriter, sincerus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | franc. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "genuine": genuinely, genuineness, genuinenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Genuine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gakuin, Gasunie, Gendin, Geneina, genin, geniune, genoan, genuie, genuin, gen-u-ine, Genung, ginuine, neguibe, Renquin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "genuine" (pronounced je"nyuwun or je"nyuwwī'n) |
| 3 | -w u n | anyone, harlequin, penguin. |
| 3 | -w ī' n | equine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ingenue. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-u" | |
-1 letter: engine. | |
-2 letters: ennui, genie. | |
-3 letters: gene, genu, gien, nene, nine. | |
-4 letters: eng, gee, gen, gie, gin, gnu, gun, inn, nee, nun. | |
-5 letters: en, in, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: ingenues, queening, unseeing. | |
+2 letters: genuinely, gunneries, neutering, unfeeling, unfeigned, unfreeing, unheeding, unreeling, unreeving, unweeting. | |
+3 letters: ensanguine, indulgence, insurgence, integument, neurogenic, pungencies, quietening, sequencing, unfreezing, unleveling, unsteeling. | |
+4 letters: encumbering, ensanguined, ensanguines, enucleating, enumerating, eventuating, extenuating, frequenting, genuineness, indulgences, ingenuities, insurgences, integuments, interregnum, maneuvering, monseigneur, multiengine, mutineering, outpreening, renumbering, supervening, unbelieving, unbeseeming, unbreeching, undeceiving, undereating, undersigned, undeserving, unendearing, unfeelingly, unfeignedly, unfettering, unkenneling, unlevelling, unrelenting, untethering, unweetingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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