genuine
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
genuine/ˈʤenjuɪn/
▶adjective
- 1 truly what it is said to be; authentic.
- 2 sincere; honest.
– derivatives
genuinely adverb,
genuineness noun.
genuinely adverb,
genuineness noun.
– origin C16: from L. genuinus, from genu ‘knee’ (with ref. to the Roman custom of a father acknowledging paternity of a newborn child by placing it on his knee); later assoc. with genus ‘birth, race, stock’.
'genuine' also found in these Oxford entries:
adulterate
- Apocrypha
- authentic
- bogus
- bona fide
- canon
- Classico
- dinkum
- double bluff
- doubtful
- ersatz
- fake
- faux
- front
- german
- honest-to-God
- honest-to-goodness
- inauthentic
- insincere
- Inupiaq
- kosher
- McCoy
- phoney
- proper
- pseudo-
- pukka
- real
- ridgy-didge
- righteous
- simon-pure
- sincere
- sooth
- straight-up
- sufferance
- synthetic
- tooth
- true
- true-blue
- true-born
- unaffected
- unfeigned
- veritable
- very
- wash
