Indicating that what was just said was obvious and unnecessary; contrived incredulity
B: Really.
You use really when you are discussing the real facts about something, in contrast to the ones someone wants you to believe. My father didn't really love her
vagueness People sometimes use really to slightly reduce the force of a negative statement. I'm not really surprised `Did they hurt you?' --- `Not really'
emphasis If you refer to a time when something really begins to happen, you are emphasizing that it starts to happen at that time to a much greater extent and much more seriously than before. That's when the pressure really started
in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"
feelings You can say really to express surprise or disbelief at what someone has said. `We discovered it was totally the wrong decision.' --- `Really?'
in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"