adjective
having existence or being or actuality
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Examples
- an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient
- much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran
adjective
being or occurring in fact or actuality
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- having verified existence
- not illusory
- real objects
- real people
- not ghosts
- a film based on real life
- a real illness
- real humility
- Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow
adjective
presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
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- the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different
- actual and imagined conditions