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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  genuine \gen"u*ine\, a. [L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to
     beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. g['e]nuine. See
     {Gender}.]
     Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native;
     hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated;
     authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a


     genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night."
     --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated.
          See {Authentic}. -- {Gen"u*ine*ly}, adv. --
          {Gen"u*ine*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]
  
                The evidence, both internal and external, against
                the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming.
                                                    --Macaulay.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  genuine
       adj 1: not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine
              leather" [syn: {echt}] [ant: {counterfeit}]
       2: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine
          emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true
          grief" [syn: {true(a)}, {unfeigned}]
       3: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of
          something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a
          desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: {actual},
           {literal}, {real}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "genuine":
     aboveboard, absolute, actual, arcadian, artless, authentic, bluff,
     blunt, bona fide, broad, brusque, bucolic, candid, card-carrying,
     de facto, dinkum, direct, downright, earnest, explicit, factual,
     fair and square, following the letter, for real, forthright,
     foursquare, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
     free-tongued, good, good-faith, heart-to-heart, historical,
     homespun, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, ingenuous, lawful,
     legitimate, lifelike, literal, native, natural, naturalistic,
     naturelike, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open,
     open and aboveboard, openhearted, original, outspoken, pastoral,
     plain, plain-spoken, positive, proper, pukka, pure, real,
     realistic, rightful, round, rural, simon-pure, simple, sincere,
     single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, sterling,
     straight, straight-out, straight-shooting, straightforward,
     substantial, sure-enough, transparent, true, true to life,
     true to nature, true to reality, unadorned, unadulterated,
     unaffected, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming, unchecked,
     uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, uncopied, uncounterfeited,
     undeniable, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling,
     undissimulating, undistorted, unembellished, unequivocal,
     unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning,
     unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded, unimagined, unimitated,
     uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified,
     unreserved, unrestrained, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious,
     unspoiled, unsynthetic, unvarnished, up-and-up, verbal, verbatim,
     veridical, verisimilar, veritable, word-for-word
  
  

















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