- in appearance but not necessarily in actuality: with seemingly effortless ease
- (sentence modifier) apparently; as far as one knows: seemingly, he had few friends left
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seem•ing•ly /ˈsimɪŋli/USA pronunciation adv.
- apparently;
evidently:a seemingly endless supply of soldiers.
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seemingly /ˈsiːmɪŋlɪ/ adv
seem•ing /ˈsimɪŋ/USA pronunciation
adj. [usually: before a noun]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- apparent;
appearing so;
ostensible:Their team had a seeming advantage in that they were confident.
seem•ing
(sē′ming),USA pronunciation adj.
n.
seem′ing•ly, adv.
seem′ing•ness, n.
- apparent;
appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified:a seeming advantage.
n.
- appearance, esp. outward or deceptive appearance.
- 1300–50; Middle English semynge; see seem, -ing2, -ing1
seem′ing•ness, n.
- 1. ostensible, external, superficial. 2. semblance, face, pretense.
'seemingly' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
apparently
- counterintuitive
- demonic
- dream
- eternal
- eternity
- existentialism
- interminable
- livelong
- magic wand
- mind-reader
- omniscient
- ostensibly
- paradox
- perpetual
- quasi-
- rusty
- sea change
- Sisyphean
- sophistry
- unreal
- albatross
- character piece
- collage
- colorable
- conversational implicature
- creek
- demoniac
- die-hard
- disconnected
- disk
- engaged
- face
- fair
- forever
- freeze
- gamesmanship
- gradualism
- grist
- hypercorrection
- incident
- insidious
- jigsaw puzzle
- joker
- kingdom come
- latent ambiguity
- oxymoron
- parastichy
- plausible
- power