EGAVE

seem

About 94.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
    She is seeming a bit down these days. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How'd she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. "It seems like rain". "It seems to me (to be) rather sleety."; "There seem to be a few problems."
  2. verb To befit; to beseem.

Similar words

appear look appearance consider suggest think believe resemble show prove

Often followed by

to that like a as more so very at not

Word family

seemed seeming seems

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