seeming

Speech parts

1. seeming - Noun

2. seeming - Adjective

3. seeming - Verb

5. seeming - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Seem

Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

Apprehension; judgment.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

apparent ostensible like possible show surface near outside appear illusive face appearance external look acting
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Antonyms

good real actual clearing diminishing dissolving
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Phrases with the word

vernal-seeming hermetic-seeming seeming only ordinary-seeming routine-seeming

Examples

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. Alexis de Tocqueville

Seeming and being are not one and the same. Cecelia Ahern

I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. Frank Sinatra

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Swami Sivananda

True worth is in being, not seeming. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Seemanova syndrome seeme seemer seemingly seemingly endless seemingness