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Definitions of actual
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existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not; " de facto segregation is as real as segration imposed by law"; " a de facto state of war"
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Something actual or real. " Not... actuals, but only Egyptian budget estimates."- Fort. Rev.
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of the nature of fact; having actual existence; " rocks and trees... the actual world"; " actual heroism"; " the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"
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Real; existing in act or fact; existing at present.
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Something real.
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being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; " her actual motive"; " a literal solitude like a desert"- G. K. Chesterton; " a genuine dilemma"
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ACTUALITY.
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Involving or comprising action; active.
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ACTUALLY.
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being or existing at the present moment; " the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West"
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Existing in fact; real.
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presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; " the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"; " actual and imagined conditions"
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Real: existing in fact and now, as opp. to an imaginary or past state of things.
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Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.
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Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; - opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.
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taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated; " we saw the actual wedding on television"; " filmed the actual beating"
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Real, existent, active, not potential.
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Existing in fact; real as opposed to merely possible; present.
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Real; existing.
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In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
Antonyms for actual
fabulous, spurious, paper, ostensive, nominal, chimerical, imaginary, notional, pictured, fake, ostensible, abstract, formal, reputed, unassured, titular, ideational, academic, perilous, presumed, phony, envisioned, representative, snide, fictitious, conceived, putative, baseless, made-up, representational, phantasmic, reported, suppositional, pretend, fictional, risky, untrue, platonic, unstable, fabricated, forged, alleged, phantasmal, symbolic, unsupported, fabled, unreasonable, unwarranted, phantom, evident, groundless, sham, unsteady, unsubstantiated, visualized, illusory, fanciful, potential, apparent, unsettled, possible, supposititious, latent, metaphysical, nonvalid, romantic, emblematic, visionary, noncurrent, Inexistent, ideal, unauthentic, inauthentic, de jure, bogus, unreal, Fantasied, theoretical, false, unfounded, make believe, feigned, hypothetical, prima facie, counterfeit, insecure, conceptual, speculative, conjectural, seeming, precarious, fantastic, assumed, implicit, virtual, supposed, hazardous, mythical, Foundationless, imagined, nonexistent, invented, Envisaged, legendary.
Quotes of actual
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Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
– Jane Campion -
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.
– Christopher Darden -
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
– Omar Epps -
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
– J. F. C. Fuller -
It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.
– Kevin Garnett -
It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.
– Greg Ginn -
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
– Charlie Gonzalez -
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
– Herman Gorter -
The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
– Rafik Hariri -
Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.
– Duncan Hunter -
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
– Jonathan Lethem -
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
– Marya Mannes -
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
– Amos Oz -
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
– August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Usage examples for actual
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“ In actual practice, I have not found this to be so. ”
– A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers -
“ Then he told him how he had been condemned by the Sultan, for some private enmity, to die, but he carefully observed the utmost secrecy as to what the actual motive of his punishment really was. ”
– The Circassian Slave; or, The Sultan's Favorite A Story of Constantinople and the Caucasus by Lieutenant Maturin Murray -
“ Its population is estimated at three hundred thousand, which I think is rather short of the actual number. ”
– The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes -
“ There would be actual terror for her in the notion of such an accident. ”
– The Lovels of Arden by M. E. Braddon -
“ No previous preparation makes the mind ready for the actual revelation. ”
– The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard -
“ For the first time since the doctor had told Lingard of what had happened the night before, it seemed as if Athena, her actual physical presence, was close to him again. ”
– Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes -
“ It was not the actual man I fell in love with in England. ”
– Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss -
“ Was it not his actual life? ”
– What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton -
“ He wasn't of much use to me in actual work. ”
– The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson -
“ I even gained a suspicion that Percival Coolidge was the actual leader of the conspiracy." ”
– The Case and The Girl by Randall Parrish -
“ If such a document should ever be found, then that would be the actual will and not the one which he had now read. ”
– Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope -
“ Apparent Time Actual or Sun Time. ”
– Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper -
“ You had actual evidence of this? ”
– Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer -
“ Where was the actual entrance? ”
– Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen -
“ " I'm going to make him an actual partner in the mine. ”
– They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland -
“ " Less than three score and ten in actual years," she told him. ”
– Wolf Breed by Jackson Gregory -
“ It seemed to possess actual physical weight, and to press us down from above. ”
– African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White -
“ They may have been actual years: or they may have been, as I am inclined to think, changes in his own soul and state of mind. ”
– Sermons on National Subjects by Charles Kingsley -
“ A short time ago it gave me actual pleasure. ”
– The Motor Maid by Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson -
“ To say that the discovery gave her actual pleasure would be doing her injustice; but the excitement of the moment swept away every other sensation. ”
– Democracy An American Novel by Henry Adams