betul-betulBahasa Indonesia

truly, really, ardent, dead, direct

Less common #6,238 of the corpus · 13.1 per million words · 56,027 occurrences

From betul (reduplication) · common, #2,307

Adjective

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

English: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank

Bahasa: terang-terangan

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Expletives used informally as intensifiers

English: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal

Bahasa: terlalu, betul

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11 more adjective senses

Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

English: rigorous, stringent, tight

Bahasa: ketat

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Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions, inclined to react violently, fervid

English: fierce, tearing, vehement, violent, trigger-happy

Bahasa: hebat, sengit, terik

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Characterized by intense emotion

English: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid

Bahasa: benar-benar, bersemangat, marak, meluap, berapi-api

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Sharply exact or accurate or delimited

English: precise

Bahasa: tepat, persis, jitu

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Not mixed with extraneous elements

English: plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed

Bahasa: benar-benar, belaka, semata-mata

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Not to be taken lightly

English: real

Bahasa: sejati, jati, tulen

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Unerringly accurate

English: dead

Bahasa: tepat

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Thorough

English: good

Bahasa: sepuas-puasnya

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Lacking compromising or mitigating elements, exact

English: direct

Bahasa: langsung, sama sekali

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Adverb

To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')

English: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole

Bahasa: benar-benar, keseluruhan, sehabis, sama sekali

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Completely and without qualification, used informally as intensifiers

English: absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead

Bahasa: sampai ke sumsum

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Completely, used as intensifiers

English: clean, plumb, plum

Bahasa: langsung, tepat, bersih, sama sekali

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20 more adverb senses

(Southern regional intensive) very, to a great degree

English: mighty, mightily, powerful, right

Bahasa: terus

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In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)

English: in truth, really, truly

Bahasa: benar, benar-benar, bahwasanya, sungguh mati

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Directly or exactly, straight

English: due

Bahasa: tepat

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(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished, all but

English: about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh

Bahasa: benar-benar, dekat, hampir, rapat, nyaris, hampir-hampir

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Thoroughgoing

English: downright

Bahasa: cukup, benar-benar, sungguh

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Indicating exactness or preciseness

English: precisely, exactly, just

Bahasa: saja, benar-benar, tepat, betul, sekadar

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To a great depth psychologically

English: profoundly, deeply

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With extreme conscientiousness

English: scrupulously, conscientiously, religiously

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Restricted to something

English: strictly, purely

Bahasa: hanya, semata-mata

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Extremely

English: positively

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In a rigid manner

English: rigidly, stiffly, bolt

Bahasa: terus, tepat, kaku

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By right

English: rightfully, truly

Bahasa: bahwasanya

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In a round manner

English: roundly

Bahasa: benar-benar

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In an eminent manner

English: eminently

Bahasa: sangat, amat

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With sincerity, without pretense

English: sincerely, unfeignedly, truly

Bahasa: benar-benar, bahwasanya

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To a great degree

English: sorely

Bahasa: benar-benar

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In a forthright manner, candidly or frankly

English: directly, flat, straight

Bahasa: terus, langsung, lantas, mendatar

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