Definitions for genuine

genuine gen·u·ine

Spelling: [jen-yoo-in]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛn yu ɪn/

Genuine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in genuine (eeginnu).

Definitions for genuine

adjective

  1. possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real:
  2. properly so called:
  3. free from pretense, affectation, or hypocrisy; sincere:
  4. descended from the original stock; pure in breed:

Origin of genuine

1590-1600; Latin genuīnus innate, natural, equivalent to genu, as in ingenuus native (see ingenuous) + -īnus -ine1

Examples for genuine

Available at Olympic Provisions Mexico: The Cookbook, $33 Is there anything better than genuine Mexican food?

The one was capable of genuine sympathy; the other not yet of any.

You will know that which is genuine because it makes room for more happiness.

Human vision is as close as we mere mortals will ever come to having a genuine superpower.

I am holding in my hand a book, bound in black “genuine top-grain” leather.

Public sector unions create a genuine political conundrum for Democrats.

The bread was genuine homemade, a term so often misused in the cities.

These were, however, genuine, and spoke in the name and with the authority of the tribes.

He and Rose would have to get down to a genuine basis, and the quicker the better.

He would rather endorse someone with genuine doubts than someone with disingenuous beliefs.

Word Value for genuine
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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