REALとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.

発音

• enPR: rēl, rēəl, IPA: /ɹiːl/, /ˈɹiːəl/, /ɹɪl/, [ˈɹʷi.jʟ̩]
• 韻: -iːəl, -iːl
• Homophone: reel (some accents)

形容詞

real (comparative realer or more real, superlative realest or most real)

1. True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

   City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.

   • 2007, Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life: A Novel, →ISBN, page 179:

     [T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]

   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2. Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

   This is real leather.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

3. Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

   These are real tears!

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Whose perfection farr excell’d Hers in all real dignitie

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

4. Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

   a description of real life

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real, as the dream / Had lively shadowed.

5. That has objective, physical existence.

   No one has ever seen a real unicorn.

6. (economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).

   My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.

   What is the real GNP of this polity?

7. (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
8. (mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
9. (law) Relating to immovable tangible property.

   real estate; real property

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Cunning”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.

10. Absolute, complete, utter.

    This is a real problem.

11. (slang) Signifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success.

    I'm keeping it real.

    1. Firm through directness, readiness to confront.

       yo, Imma be real with u... don't ever text me again

同意語

• (true, genuine): true, actual
• (genuine, not artificial): authentic, genuine, actual
• (genuine, unfeigned): authentic, genuine, heartfelt, true, actual, based
• (that has physical existence): actual

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “true, genuine”): imaginary, nonreal, unreal
• (antonym(s) of “genuine, not artificial”): artificial, counterfeit, fake, sham
• (antonym(s) of “genuine, unfeigned”): feigned, sham, staged
• (antonym(s) of “that has physical existence”): fictitious, imaginary, made-up, pretend (informal)
• (antonym(s) of “relating to numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line”): imaginary

派生語

副詞

real (not comparable)

1. (US, colloquial) Really; very.

   When I told him the truth, he got real mad.

   Se looked at me real strange.

   • 1977, Nixon interviews‎, spoken by Richard Nixon, →OCLC:

     We were meeting in the Oval Office and I saw the morning news report and I just happened casually to mention to George I says- 'Well I'll betcha that President Johnson is gonna be real pleased when he finds that now they are calling me the number one bomber.' And George Christian said 'Oh don't be too sure.' He says, 'You know LBJ- he never likes to be number two.'

名詞

real (plural reals)

1. A commodity; see realty.
2. (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
3. (mathematics, computing) A real number.
   • 2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11:

     There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."

4. (obsolete) A realist.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals

語源 2

Borrowed from Spanish real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: rāäl', IPA: /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
  • 韻: -ɑːl
• (米国発音) enPR: rāäl', IPA: /ɹeɪˈɑl/
  • 韻: -ɑl

名詞

real (plural reals or reales)

1. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
2. A coin worth one real.

語源 3

From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: rāäl', IPA: /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
• (米国発音) enPR: rāäl', IPA: /ɹeɪˈɑl/
• 韻: -ɑːl, -ɑl

名詞

real (plural reis or réis or reals)

1. (uncountable) A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.

   Synonym: rei

2. (countable) A coin worth one real.

名詞

real (plural reais or reals)

1. (uncountable) A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.

   Meronym: centavo

   • 2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:

     Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.

2. (countable) A coin worth one real.

関連する語

• regal
• royal
• milreis

アナグラム

• Arel, Earl, Elar, Lare, Lear, Rael, Raël, earl, lare, lear, rale

別の表記

• riall, realle, reale, ryall, reall

発音

• IPA: /ˈrɛːal/, /ˈriːal/

形容詞

real

1. (Late Middle English) real, true, factual
2. (Late Middle English, law) concerning possessions

派生した語

• English: real
• Scots: real

参照

• “rēal, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 April 2018.

語源 2

形容詞

real

1. alternative form of ryal

名詞

real

1. alternative form of ryal

副詞

real

1. alternative form of ryal