Lexic.us

Definition of Actual

1. Adjective. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible. "Actual and imagined conditions"

2. Adjective. Taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated. "Filmed the actual beating"

3. Adjective. Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something. "A genuine dilemma"

4. Adjective. Existing in act or fact. "The actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"

5. Adjective. Being or existing at the present moment. "The ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West"

Definition of Actual

1. a. Involving or comprising action; active.

2. n. Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.

Definition of Actual

1. Adjective. Existing in act or reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact ¹

2. Adjective. Factual, real, not just apparent or even false ¹

3. Adjective. In action at the time being; now existing. ¹

4. Adjective. (obsolete) Active, not passive ¹

5. Adjective. Used to emphasise a noun or verb, whether something is real or metaphorical. ¹

6. Noun. An actual, real one; notably: ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Actual

1. existing in fact [adj] : ACTUALLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Actual

1. 1. Involving or comprising action; active. "Her walking and other actual performances." (Shak) "Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . By a special prayer or action, . . . Given to God." (Jer. Taylor) 2. Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion. 3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See Cautery. Actual sin, that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin." Synonym: Real, genuine, positive, certain. See Real. Origin: OE. Actuel, F. Actuel, L. Actualis, fr. Agere to do, act. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Actual

actor's line actoress actorial actorish actorishly actorishness actorly actors actour actress

actresses actressy acts of independent significance acts out acts up actual (current term) actual bodily harm actual cautery actual damages actual eviction

actual malice actual occasions actual parameter actual possession actual sin actualisation actualisations actualise actualised actualises

Literary usage of Actual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"We would use the scale by saying that the actual energy at any distance only differs from the scale value by the starting-energy to be super-added ; or the ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1891)
"[B<*d February 11,1891 ] As long ago as 1873,Martinache, of San Francisco,1 recommended the application of the actual cautery for the treatment of hypopyon ..."

3. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1890)
"... practically gets over this ^"^"n difficulty; how he first projects out of the simple ideas, actual under relations which it requires a mind to ..."

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