actual

actual has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• a.. Involving or comprising action; active.
• a.. 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.
• a.. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
• n.. Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.
• a.. presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; "the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"; "actual and imagined conditions"
• a.. being or existing at the present moment; "the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West"
• a.. taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated; "we saw the actual wedding on television"; "filmed the actual beating"
• a.. existing in act or fact; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"
• a.. being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"