Adjective

(en-adj)

True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

* 2007 , Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life: A Novel (ISBN 1429976438), page 179:

[T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

* Milton:

Whose perfection far excelled / Hers in all real dignity.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

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Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

a description of real life

* Milton:

I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real , as the dream / Had lively shadowed.

That has objective, physical existence.

(economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power .

(economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.

(mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.

(legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.

* Francis Bacon

Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.

Absolute, complete, utter.

(slang)

Adjective

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Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.

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*{{quote-book, year=1917, year_published=2008

, edition=HTML, author=(Edgar Rice Burroughs), publisher=The Gutenberg Project , title= A Princess of Mars , passage="It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.}}

*{{quote-book, year=2010, author=(Stephan Grundy)

, title= Beowulf , genre=Fiction, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=9781440156977, page=33 , passage=And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.}}

Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.

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*Book of Common Prayer

*:a fair white linen cloth

Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also referring to blond hair.

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*1677 , (Matthew Hale), The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature , page 200

*:the northern people large and fair -complexioned

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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair , and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

Just, equitable.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Adequate, reasonable, or decent.

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*, chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

Favorable to a ship's course.

Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.

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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

*:You wish fair winds may waft him over.

Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.

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*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)

*:The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.

(lb) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

(lb) Between the baselines.