Dictionary Entry
actual
actual is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Involving or comprising action; active. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Involving or comprising action; active.
- 2adjective
Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.
- 3adjective
In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
- 4noun
Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.
- 5adjective
presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
"the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"
"actual and imagined conditions"
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- 6adjective
being or existing at the present moment
"the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West"
- 7adjective
taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated
"we saw the actual wedding on television"
"filmed the actual beating"
- 8adjective
existing in act or fact
"rocks and trees...the actual world"
"actual heroism"
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- 9adjective
being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something- G.K.Chesterton
"her actual motive"
"a literal solitude like a desert"
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