Word info

on the real

Adverb

Meaning

on the real (not comparable)

(informal) for real, seriously

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction. Rohinton Mistry

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. Tony Blair

The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person. G. K. Chesterton

Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous? Dave Eggers

I was the hopeless romantic. I had so many crushes. But not on the real obvious girls. I was into the quirky ones. I was so shy, though. Josh Groban

If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things. Lee Hsien Loong

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