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gotten real

gotten real is the past participle of get real.

Meaning of get real

Verb

get real (third-person singular simple present gets real, present participle getting real, simple past got real, past participle gotten real or got real)

  1. To stop pretending or dreaming; to start facing up to some aspect of reality (usually, an unpleasant one).
    • let's get real

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Questions about gotten real

What is gotten real the past participle of?
Gotten real is the past participle of get real.

Words near gotten real in the dictionary

  1. gotten over with
  2. gotten past
  3. gotten past oneself
  4. gotten physical
  5. gotten ready
  6. gotten real
  7. gotten religion
  8. gotten rid of
  9. gotten right
  10. gotten right down to cases
  11. gotten right into it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten real (page history and authors); get real (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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