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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. not fake or counterfeit;
- Example: "a genuine Picasso"
- Example: "genuine leather"
[syn: genuine, echt]

2. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed;
- Example: "genuine emotion"
- Example: "her interest in people was unfeigned"
- Example: "true grief"
[syn: genuine, true(a), unfeigned]

3. being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something;
- Example: "her actual motive"
- Example: "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton
- Example: "a genuine dilemma"
[syn: actual, genuine, literal, real]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

genuine \gen"u*ine\, a. [L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to
   beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. g['e]nuine. See
   Gender.]
   Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native;
   hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated;
   authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a
   genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night."
   --Dryden.

   Syn: Authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated.
        See Authentic. -- Gen"u*ine*ly, adv. --
        Gen"u*ine*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

              The evidence, both internal and external, against
              the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming.
                                                  --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

genuine
    adj 1: not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine
           leather" [syn: genuine, echt] [ant: counterfeit,
           imitative]
    2: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine
       emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true
       grief" [syn: genuine, true(a), unfeigned]
    3: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of
       something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a
       desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual,
       genuine, literal, real]