seeming
Meaning of seeming
adjective
- appearing to be real or true, but not necessarily being so; apparent.
Ellen's seeming indifference to the woman's fate
- the outward appearance or aspect of someone or something, especially when considered as deceptive or as distinguished from reality.
that dissidence between inward reality and outward seeming
- give the impression of being something or having a particular quality.
Dawn seemed annoyed
it seemed a dismal town
there seems to be plenty to eat
it seemed that he was determined to oppose her
- be unable to do something, despite having tried.
he couldn't seem to remember his lines
Middle English (also in the sense ‘suit, befit, be appropriate’): from Old Norse sœma ‘to honour’, from sœmr ‘fitting’.
Information about seeming
- The plural form of seeming is: seemings.
- Languages in which seeming is used:
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Hyphenation of seeming
seem-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- seeming is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
seeming synonyms
Meaning apparent:
Meaning relating to the external appearance of something rather than its true nature:
Meaning relating to or found on the surface of something:
Meaning not genuine; assumed:
Meaning simulated or pretended; insincere:
Meaning superficially plausible, but actually wrong:
Meaning (of a quality, feeling, or belief) claimed openly but often falsely:
Meaning generally assumed or believed to be the case, but not necessarily so:
Meaning suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability:
Meaning that has been asserted, admitted, or stated publicly:
Meaning said, without proof, to have taken place or to have a specified illegal or undesirable quality:
Meaning openly or formally asserted or announced:
Meaning state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof:
Meaning appearing or stated to be true, though not necessarily so; alleged:
Meaning directly demonstrative:
Meaning seem; give the impression of being:
Meaning have the appearance or give the impression of being:
Meaning emit or cause to emit sound:
seeming antonyms
Meaning existing in fact; real:
Meaning actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed:
Meaning truly what something is said to be; authentic:
Words that rhyme with seeming
Ming, ming, Temiskaming, antifoaming, ashaming, balsaming, beaming, befoaming, bemadaming, benaming, beshaming, blaming, breaming, buckraming, caaming, coaming, creaming, daydreaming, defaming, defoaming, deprograming, diagraming, dreaming, enflaming, enframing, enseaming, entaming, faming, flaming, foaming, framing, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, goddaming, haming, hoaming, inbeaming, infaming, inflaming, inseaming, instreaming, laming, leaming, loaming, madaming, mainstreaming, misframing, misnaming, misprograming
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