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# genuinely

«genuinely» in Mova's school dictionary: **Really and truly; honestly, not pretending: I'm genuinely…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Really and truly; honestly, not pretending: I'm genuinely sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#m1)

2) In a way that is real and not fake: a genuinely old coin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk «genuinely» shows you mean what you say; in stories it shows a character's true feeling. Phrases: «genuinely sorry», «genuinely surprised», «genuinely interested».

### examples

- I'm genuinely sorry I broke your pencil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#x1)
- She was genuinely surprised by the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#x2)
- He seemed genuinely interested in my drawing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#x3)
- The museum checked that the coin was genuinely old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#x4)
- Are you genuinely happy, or just being polite? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#x5)
- It was a genuinely funny film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/#x6)

### note

Adverb from «genuine» (real). Say «JEN-yoo-in-lee». Slang similar: «for real», «honestly». Spelling: genu-ine-ly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «genuinely» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genuinely/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.