Actual
Actual adjective - Existing in fact and not merely as a possibility.
Seeming
Seeming adjective - Appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmed.
Usage example: a seeming contradiction that disappeared upon closer analysis of the text
Both words in one sentence
- Just to keep things from seeming too normal, though, they used an actual dog to howl along with the instrumental section.
Source: Twelve Bar Blues -
The actual Beckwith was also much like this, even to the point of seeming schizophrenic.
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Non-Indicative Name: Princess Carolyn's archnemesis Vanessa Gekko is not an actual gecko, despite the existence of all the anthropomorphic animals seeming to make this a given.
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Seeming and Actual. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/actual/seeming
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