Actual and Sure

Actual

Actual adjective - Existing in fact and not merely as a possibility.

Sure and actual are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sure" instead an adjective "Actual".

Sure

Sure adjective - Having or showing a mind free from doubt.

Actual and sure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Actual" instead an adjective "Sure".

Nearby Word: surely

Both words in one sentence

  • I will make double sure of my actual genre and the role I am actually in, instead of the genre and role I think I'm in.
  • The early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary commissioned actual lexicographers to cross-reference other Elizabethan texts to make sure that Shakespeare hadn't fooled them!
  • In I Know Your Secret Harry tries what he's pretty sure are frogs' legs, decides they taste like chicken and wonders why you couldn't just cook and eat some actual chicken instead.
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