not really

adv — 2 senses

not really

adv

1

To a low degree, not particularly, not especially.

I’m not really hungry now, so let’s have dinner later.
A: Are you hungry yet? B: Not really.

1 more example

I asked him if it had been a hard fight. "Not really," he said.2022 September 13, 2:54 from the start, in See what Russians left behind after being run out of city, CNN:

2

Not actually (a hypothetical will not, in fact, come to pass), often rhetorical.

You’re not really going to marry him, are you?

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