Meaning & use

Realest

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Most genuine, honest, or authentic, especially in personality or character; the informal superlative form of "real."

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Everyone at the shop agreed that Marcus was the realest guy they knew — no pretense, no games.

Fans praised the rapper's new album as her realest work yet, stripped of studio polish.

A note on using this word

Realest is an informal superlative that gained wide use in hip-hop and street culture to praise someone's authenticity; standard grammar would prefer "most real," but realest has become an established colloquialism.

Words with a similar meaning

most genuinemost authentic

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Words with an opposite meaning

fakest

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