echt
Americanadjective
adjective
Explanation
Something that's echt is true or authentic. An echt friend would never throw a party without inviting you! In German, the word echt means "genuine." The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is credited with being the first to use it in English, in a 1916 article. You can try out this uncommon adjective whenever you're looking for a new way to describe something or someone as bona fide, authentic, or the real deal: "You've got six kitties? Wow, you're an echt cat lover!"
Vocabulary lists containing echt
Example Sentences
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Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff was long regarded as an echt San Francisco liberal billionaire.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025
Regardless, the only way to have an echt cream today, that would make Auster proud, is to make one yourself.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2022
“Tough” and “competent” were, well, echt Wasp words, as Mailer would doubtless have pointed out.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2019
LACMA’s Minimalist design isn’t bold or progressive; it’s echt establishment.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019
Here, in the spacious concert-garden shaded by the dense foliage of numerous oak-trees, two German military bands, one of the infantry and one of the cavalry—seventy-four men in all—gave grand echt deutsche Militaerconcerte.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Wisthaler, Johanna S.
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