Collocations for real - adj.
ADVERB
all too,
very
Her suffering was all too real.
the very real danger of war
Her suffering was all too real.
the very real danger of war
frighteningly
The possibility of being arrested was frighteningly real.
The possibility of being arrested was frighteningly real.
enough
The pearls looked real enough.
The pearls looked real enough.
PHRASES
real and/or imaginary,
real and/or imagined
real or imagined threats to national security
real or imagined threats to national security
Real is used with these nouns:
achievement, advantage, affection, affinity, agenda, ale, alternative, amusement, anger, anguish, answer, appreciation, artist, asset, assistance, bargain, battle, beauty, benefit, bind, bitterness, blessing, bonus, boon, bore, breakthrough, business, cause, challenge, chance, character, charm, class, cock-up, coffee, commitment, complex, confidence, connoisseur, contender, contest, context, conversation, conviction, cost, coup, credibility, crime, criminal, crux, culprit, danger, dedication, degree, delight, democracy, dent, desire, deterrent, dialogue, diamond, difference, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, disappointment, disaster, dislike, distinction, distress, doubt, drawback, earnings, effort, emergency, emotion, empathy, enemy, enjoyment, enthusiasm, essence, excitement, existence, experience, expert, explanation, family, fan, father, fault, fear, feeling, fight, figure, find, flair, focus, food, freedom, friend, friendship, fur, gain, gem, genius, gentleman, gold, grief, grievance, growth, hammering, handicap, hardship, hazard, headache, heart, heir, help, hero, heroine, heroism, high, highlight, hit, hope, horror, hunger, hurry, idiot, impact, importance, improvement, incentive, incident, income, independence, inequality, initiative, insight, intention, interest, intimacy, issue, jerk, job, joy, kick, killer, knack, laugh, leadership, leather, lesson, life, lifeline, lift, likelihood, loser, love, luxury, magic, mark, meaning, menace, merit, mess, miracle, misery, mother, motivation, motive, mum, murderer, mystery, name, nature, necessity, need, neighbourhood, nightmare, nuisance, number, opportunity, option, parent, passion, people, pity, pleasure, possibility, potential, power, privilege, probability, problem, professional, progress, promise, proof, reason, reduction, reform, regret, relevance, remorse, return, risk, romantic, sacrifice, sadness, scandal, science, self, sense, shame, shock, sign, significance, situation, solution, star, stir, strain, strength, struggle, stumbling block, style, substance, subtlety, success, suffering, surprise, suspense, sympathy, talent, target, taste, tear, tenderness, tennis, tension, term, terror, test, thing, threat, thrill, tooth, tragedy, treat, trial, trick, triumph, trouble, truth, turning point, understanding, vacation, value, venom, villain, virtue, wage, warmth, weakness, winner, world, worry
achievement, advantage, affection, affinity, agenda, ale, alternative, amusement, anger, anguish, answer, appreciation, artist, asset, assistance, bargain, battle, beauty, benefit, bind, bitterness, blessing, bonus, boon, bore, breakthrough, business, cause, challenge, chance, character, charm, class, cock-up, coffee, commitment, complex, confidence, connoisseur, contender, contest, context, conversation, conviction, cost, coup, credibility, crime, criminal, crux, culprit, danger, dedication, degree, delight, democracy, dent, desire, deterrent, dialogue, diamond, difference, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, disappointment, disaster, dislike, distinction, distress, doubt, drawback, earnings, effort, emergency, emotion, empathy, enemy, enjoyment, enthusiasm, essence, excitement, existence, experience, expert, explanation, family, fan, father, fault, fear, feeling, fight, figure, find, flair, focus, food, freedom, friend, friendship, fur, gain, gem, genius, gentleman, gold, grief, grievance, growth, hammering, handicap, hardship, hazard, headache, heart, heir, help, hero, heroine, heroism, high, highlight, hit, hope, horror, hunger, hurry, idiot, impact, importance, improvement, incentive, incident, income, independence, inequality, initiative, insight, intention, interest, intimacy, issue, jerk, job, joy, kick, killer, knack, laugh, leadership, leather, lesson, life, lifeline, lift, likelihood, loser, love, luxury, magic, mark, meaning, menace, merit, mess, miracle, misery, mother, motivation, motive, mum, murderer, mystery, name, nature, necessity, need, neighbourhood, nightmare, nuisance, number, opportunity, option, parent, passion, people, pity, pleasure, possibility, potential, power, privilege, probability, problem, professional, progress, promise, proof, reason, reduction, reform, regret, relevance, remorse, return, risk, romantic, sacrifice, sadness, scandal, science, self, sense, shame, shock, sign, significance, situation, solution, star, stir, strain, strength, struggle, stumbling block, style, substance, subtlety, success, suffering, surprise, suspense, sympathy, talent, target, taste, tear, tenderness, tennis, tension, term, terror, test, thing, threat, thrill, tooth, tragedy, treat, trial, trick, triumph, trouble, truth, turning point, understanding, vacation, value, venom, villain, virtue, wage, warmth, weakness, winner, world, worry