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Definition of Actually
1. Adverb. In actual fact. "Large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
2. Adverb. Used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly. "People who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous"
3. Adverb. At the present moment. "The transmission screen shows the picture that is actually on the air"
4. Adverb. As a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis. "She hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually"
Definition of Actually
1. adv. Actively.
Definition of Actually
1. Adverb. (context: modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively. ¹
2. Adverb. (obsolete) actively ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Actually
1. actual [adv] - See also: actual
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actually
Literary usage of Actually
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"And, though men will always judge any war in which they are actually fighting to
be the greatest at the time, but, after it is over, ..."
2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1796)
"... the one is of fuch truths laid up in twofold, the memory, as whenever they
occur to the mind, it actually perceives the relation is between ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"1712-13, that he actually crossed into Lorraine. About the same time Bolingbroke
in a vigorous despatch insisted that an end should at last be made of delay ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"... and rolled with the heavy ground-swell, and we had actually begun our long,
long journey. This was literally bidding " good night " to my native land. ..."
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