not really

Definitions

1. 1

   To a low degree, not particularly, not especially.

   • I’m not really hungry now, so let’s have dinner later.
   • A: Are you hungry yet? B: Not really.
   • I asked him if it had been a hard fight. "Not really," he said.
2. 2

   Not actually (a hypothetical will not, in fact, come to pass), often rhetorical.

   • You’re not really going to marry him, are you?

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