genuine

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective not fake or counterfeit
adjective not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
adjective being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; ; - G.K.Chesterton

From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.

That is a genuine surprise. — The Store Boy, Horatio, Jr. Alger
No, the message was genuine. — The Big Four, Agatha Christie
The papyrus is undeniably genuine. — She who sleeps : $b A romance of New York and the Nile, Sax Rohmer

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