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genuinely

[jen-yoo-in]

adjective

possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.

properly so called: a genuine case of smallpox.

free from pretense, affectation, or hypocrisy; sincere: a genuine person.

descended from the original stock; pure in breed: a genuine Celtic people.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin genuīnus innate, natural = genu-, as in ingenuus native (see ingenuous) + -īnus -ine¹

Related forms

gen·u·ine·ly, adverb

gen·u·ine·ness, noun

non·gen·u·ine, adjective

non·gen·u·ine·ly, adverb

non·gen·u·ine·ness, noun

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qua·si-gen·u·ine, adjective

qua·si-gen·u·ine·ly, adverb

un·gen·u·ine, adjective

un·gen·u·ine·ly, adverb

un·gen·u·ine·ness, noun

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Synonyms
1. See authentic. 3. true, unaffected, open, honest, forthright.

Pronunciation note
Two pronunciations of genuine occur, with a sharp social contrast between them. The usual educated pronunciation is

[jen-yoo-in] , with the final syllable unstressed. Among some less educated speakers, especially older ones, genuine is commonly pronounced as

[jen-yoo-ahyn], with a secondary stress on the final syllable, which has the vowel of sign. EXPANDThe latter pronunciation is sometimes used deliberately by educated speakers, as for emphasis or humorous effect

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Example Sentences

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Second, if the behavior is genuinely appalling, then there needs to be a paper trail.

Indeed, it is one of the few unexplained phenomena that are genuinely mysterious rather than merely problematical.

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Many people find the implications of that genuinely shocking.

Second, if the behavior is genuinely appalling, then there needs to be a paper trail.

Indeed, it is one of the few unexplained phenomena that are genuinely mysterious rather than merely problematical.

He seemed genuinely flattered that someone wanted to take his picture.

They aren't paid well, so those who end up staying in science do it because they genuinely enjoy it.

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And they have discovered two genuinely odd anomalies that conventional physics cannot easily explain.

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The number of genuinely perceptive dance critics to have existed over the years can almost be counted on the thumbs of one hand.

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With that settled, there was a fresh desire to make progress towards a genuinely open free-trade block.

The people are genuinely friendly and welcoming, though some may be rather quite as they enjoy their own slice of heaven.

People who fake symptoms of mental illness can convince themselves that they genuinely have those symptoms, a new study suggests.

Sometimes, though, these incremental updates hide some genuinely big changes.

IT seems that at last the general public has become genuinely alarmed at the continued increase in highway accidents.

Sometimes villains genuinely do not know that their behavior is illegal as well as immoral and frightening to the horses.

And developing countries, seeing the results, seem to be genuinely interested in keeping inflation in check.

From the minute you met someone, they were genuinely warm and hospitable.

By the way, the technical elite are genuinely myopic in their rosy scenarios.

It used to be difficult to find genuinely good female characters in science fiction and fantasy.

Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and terribly sad.

Students begin to laugh uproariously, and genuinely.

It depends on whether there is now silence, or whether things turn genuinely eerie.

Clearly any country that is genuinely short of wealth, can only remedy the situation if it puts more of its citizens to work.

The movie is genuinely creepy at times and might be too much for anyone genuinely afraid of spiders.

The reviewer seemed genuinely annoyed that there was so much legal information to absorb in this story.

When he is doing something genuinely radical, he prefers to pretend that he is not.

The big lobbying firms for the drug companies must be hard at work trying to debunk a genuinely effective product.

He genuinely took popular questions and he certainly took many of the top-rated ones.

He was a brilliant lawyer, a generous volunteer and philanthropist, and a genuinely nice guy.

And his party has won none of the governorships of key states-powerful jobs in a genuinely federal country.

Children should be born because the parents deliberately planned to have them and genuinely want them.

The story is well told and there are a number of genuinely surprising and touching moments.

Investors might be better served by genuinely independent research, even if they have to pay for it.

Most importantly, console fans finally have a genuinely good real-time strategy experience on their gaming platform of choice.

But some polls throw up genuinely disturbing information.

Although the act has succeeded in helping many genuinely disabled people into jobs, it has also sown huge confusion.

The region's doughty band of genuinely independent newspapers, long critical of governments, have faced fewer dilemmas.

Genuinely new ideas are often breathtakingly simple.

In addition, make sure that the chapter is genuinely a free-standing, self-contained piece of work.

The risk is that genuinely qualified students are turned away because of general suspicion about fraud.

Abe's backers looked for a way to reconnect their man with his genuinely humble roots.

The audience was eager for such a glimpse and seemed genuinely moved by what it saw.

It might make them more inclined to genuinely consider each presentation against those criteria.

Slaveholders were genuinely astonished and dismayed.

People can be discomforted both by things that are genuinely wrong and by things that are not.

Another part comes simply from finding the genuinely affecting:.

Above all, he was a gentlemen who genuinely cared about others.

He's also a genuinely interesting figure, albeit a tragic one.

But the casbah-chic interior turns out to be genuinely romantic, with antique.

First, he's genuinely optimistic the economy will be okay, in part because he's sanguine about the expiration of fiscal stimulus.

In every other way he was perfectly normal, and a genuinely nice guy.

The events are so unfortunate and unjust that the film's air of restraint gives it a genuinely tragic dimension.

There is some genuinely useful info--Zahi does know his stuff.

By the end of the year there should be a genuinely elected parliament.

He was either genuinely frightened or seizing the opportunity to advance a romantic agenda".

But the old-school vibe and the wall of whispers seem genuinely fright-inducing.

He was a wonderful and cherished friend to all, a great philanthropist and a genuinely caring human being.

In both cases there was nothing nefarious about it: the search committee genuinely found that none of the candidates was right.

Since many of these pensions go to the genuinely needy, that would be socially beneficial, but fiscally expensive.

And quite a few genuinely scary moments are guaranteed to make you feel a little silly for being so freaked out.

Five minutes or so are genuinely funny, the rest is a fair, misguided try.

He was genuinely interested in what his students had to say.

But in others, the owners felt genuinely aggrieved, sorry to lose fertile cropland that yielded as many as three harvests a year.

Public employees who are genuinely injured on the job should be compensated properly.

Yes, whatever you do, don't treat this as a genuinely informal conversation.

At the heart of this and previous governments' efforts is a belief that the state can genuinely affect social mobility.

But materials that genuinely discriminate between the direction of light or sound might be possible, according to a new study.

Which is a shame, as this little cup-holder mounted gizmo looks genuinely useful.

The normally cold-hearted instructor is surprised when he finds himself genuinely returning her affections.

Several of them are good fun, and a couple of them are genuinely fine films that illuminate human behavior if not my profession.

As with blogs and wikis, people are discovering podcasting as something genuinely new.

If you're genuinely looking for an example of using stereotype successfully in humor, here's one:.

But sitting can genuinely hurt you, because human bodies did not evolve to live in chairs.

But he does seem to have a genuinely anarchic sense of humor, and.

If you genuinely want or need a job, step outside of yourself.

The credit crunch has raised three genuinely awkward questions.

Most of the time, it makes me genuinely happy to see my partners happy, and it makes them happy to see me happy.

It happens to almost everyone, including the men and women who genuinely enjoy working and indeed look forward to.

What follows next is at once heart-racing and horrible, but also too genuinely shocking to divulge.

It is that serious educators will embrace those things that genuinely help students learn.

She seemed to be genuinely surprised that she had been chosen for the job.

AltaVista now does a better job separating paid listings from genuinely relevant search results, he added.

She was always genuinely interested in our family's well-being.

Since the reader is genuinely unknown, any manner of falsehood can be put forth by the writer.

The gadgets are still incredibly cool, the show has genuinely scary moments, and the theme music can't be beat.

He seems to be a genuinely reflective man in a business made up mostly of people.

Beneath this lies a genuinely legitimate complaint:.

Most of them genuinely believe in the importance of providing more people with access to financial services.

I've spoken to friends at the company who all seem to genuinely believe he left amiably and of his own free will.

Some seemed genuinely pleased, mostly the ones who went in with concrete skills and a plan to use them.

Frank and open-minded, genuinely interested in alternative views, the general happily took the press into his confidence.

Even more curiously, the staff believed they genuinely were working for.

Campuses are collectively incredibly sick and ineffective places for generating genuinely open-minds.

Two years ago, the number of people making genuinely polished indie games was pretty small, numbering in the dozens or scores.

The only real answer is to teach something that you are genuinely enthusiastic about, it will come out.

Rather than genuinely being more politically engaged, they may simply wish to broadcast their activism to their peers.

It is genuinely frightening, and it seems to be growing more so.

The other faculty there seemed genuinely proud of the system.

Inflation can be genuinely reduced only by a period of slower growth.

If you are in the minority of people for whom family visits are genuinely fun, this weekend roundup isn't for you.

If you don't pay your library fine then your university can genuinely withhold your degree as a result.

China is also producing some genuinely innovative entrepreneurs.

Most of us genuinely want your project to be as good as it can possibly be.

For this newspaper, that system would have to be genuinely more proportional than the current one.

He genuinely enjoyed doing this for the fans, and was more than happy to share his visual art as well as his lyrical art.

The attendees seemed genuinely engaged in not only the conference topics but the collegiality of the event.

One of these surveys claims to be the first genuinely global opinion poll.

Méliès was genuinely ahead of his time in his mastery of still-developing film techniques.

Scouting's genuinely egalitarian goals and instincts are more important now than they've ever been.

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World English Dictionary

genuine (ˈdʒɛnjʊɪn)

—*adj*
1.	not fake or counterfeit; original; real; authentic
2.	not pretending; frank; sincere
3.	being of authentic or original stock

[C16: from Latin genuīnus inborn, hence (in Late Latin) authentic, from gignere to produce]

'genuinely

—*adv*

'genuineness

—n

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Word Origin & History

genuine

1596, from L. genuinus "native, natural," from root of gignere "beget" (see genus), perhaps infl. in form by contrasting adulterinus "spurious." Alternative etymology is from L. genu "knee," from an ancient custom of a father acknowledging paternity of a newborn by placing it on his knee.

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