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in reality

in reality prepositional phrase: in real life, as opposed to online, play, make believe, or theory.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) In real life, as opposed to online, play, make believe, or theory.
    • A federal balanced budget sounds good in political speeches, but in reality the idea is simply a taxocrat's dream, as it would become a constitutional order to cover all spending, even the unnecessary, deficit kind.1997 March 24, “Budget Amendment Would Raise Taxes”, in The Record, Bergen County, New Jersey
    • I'm sure you believe posting crappy song lyrics to me will endear you to me, but in reality, you're just a daft, frightened, silly little cockfag.2007 June 26, Erwin Hessle, “Re: Update from LaBlueGirl”, in alt.magick (Usenet)

in reality meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

in reality in Hindi

in reality, in fact, actually, truly, in essence, in origin
दरअसल darasal

in reality in Urdu

in reality, in fact, actually
در حقیقت dar-haqīqat
in reality, in fact, actually, truly, in essence, in origin
دراصل darasal

in reality in Bengali

in reality
আসলে aśole

in reality in Malayalam

in point of fact, in fact, as a matter of fact
സത്യത്തിൽ, വസ്തുനിഷഠമായി, യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ, പരമാർത്ഥം പറഞ്ഞാൽ, വസ്തുതഃ, വാസ്തവത്തിൽ
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in reality in Punjabi
ਵਾਸਤਵ ਵਿਚ vāstav vic

Synonyms of in reality

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All synonyms and antonyms of in reality

Questions about in reality

What does in reality mean?
In reality means in real life, as opposed to online, play, make believe, or theory.
What is in reality in Hindi?
In reality in Hindi is दरअसल (darasal). See In reality meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is in reality?
In reality is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in reality in the dictionary

  1. in rare form
  2. in re
  3. in reach
  4. in reaction
  5. in real life
  6. in reality
  7. in reason
  8. in recent memory
  9. in record time
  10. in reference to
  11. in regard

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in reality (page history and authors); दरअसल (Hindi) (page history and authors); در حقیقت (Urdu) (page history and authors); আসলে (Bengali) (page history and authors); in reality (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ਵਾਸਤਵ ਵਿਚ (Punjabi) (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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