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
With its blue-skies flats and acutely angled cityscape, Jonathan Miller’s production, first seen here in 1997, is echt 1990s Met: simple, stylized, a little off-kilter, with surreal plays of scale.
From New York Times • May 31, 2022
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
LACMA’s Minimalist design isn’t bold or progressive; it’s echt establishment.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019
Your taes are turned oot juist like the hands o' the tnock, at twenty meenits past echt.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
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