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Actual

Definition: Actual

Actual

Adjective

1. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; "the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"; "actual and imagined conditions".

2. Taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated; "we saw the actual wedding on television"; "filmed the actual beating".

3. 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".

4. Of the nature of fact; having actual existence; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced".

5. Existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not; "de facto segregation is as real as segration imposed by law"; "a de facto state of war".

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "actual" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Actual

DomainDefinition

Language

Dans un tableau sociologique: amount of learning: expected, actual. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Actual

Synonyms: de facto (adj), existent (adj), factual (adj), genuine (adj), literal (adj), real (adj). (additional references)
Antonyms: de jure (adj), potential (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Actual

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Existence

Reality, actuality; positiveness; Adjective: fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth; actual existence.

Real, actual, positive, absolute; true; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.

Identity

Facsimile; (copy); homoousia: alter ego; (similar); ipsissima verba; (exactness); same; self, very, one and the same; very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the flesh.

The Present Time

Adjective: present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is; present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment.

Truth

Adjective: real, actual; (existing); veritable, true; right, correct; certain; substantially true, categorically true, definitively true; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious; unreconfuted, unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Actual

Specialty definitions using "actual": Actual Production History, actual radius of the earth, actual torso angle. (references)
Etymologies containing "actual": Actualize. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Actual" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (actual, current, modern), Romanian (actual, current, existent, existing, fresh, modern, nowaday, present, ruling, topical, up to date), Spanish (actual, current, existing, flowing, going, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, reigning, topic, topical, up-to-date).

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Modern Usage: Actual

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yes, and there will be one less on this boat if you don't shut that hole in your face In the actual event, Molly Brown was going to throw Hutchins overboard (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

So is sand, as long as the other part is actual food (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

So, here we are on your actual brink (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

Is that just religious gobbledygook or is that an actual place (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Actual physical contact (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Clever

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1 100th of a second. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Melilla actual Rusadir (1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Actual

DomainTitle

Books

  • Actual Air: Poems (reference)

  • Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (reference)

  • Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right (reference)

  • Ask the Dream Doctor: An A-Z Guide to Deciphering the Hidden Symbols of Your Dreams - With More than 160 Actual Dreams and Their Interpretations! (reference)

  • Disorderly Conduct: Excerpts from Actual Cases (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Photography Series: The Actual Model Shoot (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Actual

Illustrations:
Actual

More pictures...

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Photo Album: Actual

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

"Canary" (movie) by Travis Casper. The actual graph flys much faster than this slowed down sequence, and it breathes, too.

The Actual Apollo 13 Prime Crew. Credit: NASA.

Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA.

Damage to a nest of Formosan subterranean termites brings hoards of workers and soldiers with dark, oval shaped heads scrambling to repair the hole. Termites shown about 4 times actual size. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Application of the actual cautery. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Everybody turns to when it's reactivation time. Here storekeeper striker D.W. Shore ... and Glenn Hobbs ... remove a dehumidifier from the hangar deck of USS Bairoko prior to its actual reactivation by San Francisco Naval Shipyard employees." "Navy men like Seaman Hobbs and Storekeeper Shore were given the task of helping in reassembling the ship that would be theirs when the ship departed from San Francisco." Quoted caption was released with this photo circa August 1950. Bairoko recommissioned for Korean War service on 12 September 1950. Credit: NAVY.

Sailor W.R. Martin points out details of the Japanese trophy flags painted on the cruiser's pilothouse as a scoreboard of enemy ships claimed sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance, 11-12 October 1942. The six Japanese ships (two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and three destroyers) represented in this scoreboard greatly overstates the actual enemy losses, which were one heavy cruiser (Furutaka) and one destroyer (Fubuki) sunk and one heavy cruiser (Aoba) badly damaged. This overclaiming was typical of contemporary night surface actions. Photographed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, soon after Boise arrived there for battle damage repairs in November 1942. Credit: NAVY.

The "best friend," the first locomotive built in the United States for actual service on a railroad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Francis W. Breed, manufacturers of ladies' fine shoes. Factories at Lynn, Mass., and Rochester, N.H., actual running capacity of Lynn Factories 6,000 to 7,000 pairs daily / C.W. Clark, s.c. ; J.R. Howe, del ; J. Howe, sc. Credit: Library of Congress.

Troops in Australia. An American light tank, manned by an Australian crew, smashed through Japanese pillboxes in the final assault on Buna. This picture, taken during the actual fighting, shows an infantry commander jumping on the tank to warn the crew of. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Actual
 

"My Eye, Again" by Toby Cummings
Commentary: "Another one of my eye pictures. The actual picture was taken before the last one I posted."
"Banana Skin" by Graeme Simpson
Commentary: "Banana skin in focus with actual banana out of focus."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Actual

AuthorQuotation

Feodor Dostoevski

Until you have become really in actual fact a brother of everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. Only by brotherhood will liberty be saved.

Friedrich Schlegel

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Georg Hegel

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

Karl Marx

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Karl W. Hunboldt

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Thomas Carlyle

The actual well seen is ideal.

William James

Belief creates the actual fact.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Actual

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

But since the government has a direct jurisdiction only over the land, and reaches the possessor of it, (before he has actually incorporated himself in the society) only as he dwells upon, and enjoys that; the obligation any one is under, by virtue of such enjoyment, to submit to the government, begins and ends with the enjoyment; so that whenever the owner, who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government, will, by donation, sale, or otherwise, quit the said possession, he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other common-wealth; or to agree with others to begin a new one, in vacuis locis, in any part of the world, they can find free and unpossessed: whereas he, that has once, by actual agreement, and any express declaration, given his consent to be of any common- wealth, is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be, and remain unalterably a subject to it, and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature; unless, by any calamity, the government he was under comes to be dissolved; or else by some public act cuts him off from being any longer a member of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. (reference)

US Bill of Rights

1795

Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. (reference)

The Emancipation Proclamation

1862

Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." (Abraham Lincoln)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Through restitution in accordance with this Article, the price or the amount of compensation fixed by the application of paragraph (e) will be reduced by the actual value of the property restored, account being taken of compensation in respect of loss of use or deterioration. (reference)

Roe v. Wade

1973

The Does' complaint, based as it is on contingencies, any one or more of which may not occur, is too speculative to present an actual case or controversy. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Actual

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

At most, by an alms given to a beggar whose blessing he fled from, he might hope wearily to win for himself some measure of actual grace

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Actual

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A histology test allows the doctor to find and examine the actual bacteria. (references)

In these cases, there may be actual shrinkage (atrophy or wasting) of brain tissue. (references)

As with Ebola virus, the actual animal host for Marburg virus also remains a mystery. (references)

Business

Actual investment amounts will largely depend on federal financial policy. (references)

As the Internet grows IP telephony can be integrated to the actual networks. (references)

Therefore, the actual online buying trends have not significantly affected retail outlets. (references)

Children

Malaysia

Actual attendance at primary school is 96 percent. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

However, compromises in many areas, including Stolac, Donji Vakuf, and Vares, fell far short of actual integration. (references)

Slovak Republic

In the past 10 years, only 127 cases of abused children were reported officially, while the actual number is estimated to be 20 to 30 times greater. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

Little is known about the actual life of religious persons in the country. (references)

Bangladesh

Party activists enforce these strikes through threatened or actual violence against strikebreakers. (references)

Russia

Human rights groups allege that this network is employed to detain without actual legal grounds opposition figures from the other former Soviet republics. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Indonesia does not report on actual investments. (references)

Honduras

Actual sales, however, do not occur through the mail. (references)

Kenya

The NSE trading floor still clears actual stock certificates. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

However, some defendants had access to counsel during actual trials. (references)

Mauritania

The actual application of the constitutional safeguards continued to vary widely from case to case. (references)

Taiwan

When the actual culprits later were caught, the head of the police station publicly apologized for the abuse. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

Experts claim these results reflect a greater underrepresentation of the actual number of Roma than the 1991 consensus. (references)

Uzbekistan

Observers believe that the statistics may underestimate the actual number of ethnic Tajiks; the figures treat ethnic Tajiks whose mother tongue was Uzbek as ethnic Uzbeks. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

Actual enrollment is declining due to the continuing deterioration of public schools. (references)

Political Rights

Moldova

Local observers reported that the actual voting was unfair, with considerable ballot box stuffing. (references)

Georgia

The degree of actual autonomy of the "Autonomous Ajaran Republic"--a former autonomous Soviet republic--was at the center of the debate. (references)

Pakistan

The 9.26 million census figure for Karachi, revised to 9.8 million in a February 2000 report, is estimated to be 3 to 5 million short of the actual figure. (references)

Trade

Russia

There are no actual free trade zones in Russia. (references)

Mexico

Red clause L.C.s allow payment to the before actual shipment of the goods. (references)

Nicaragua

This reference price can be significantly higher than the actual amount paid by importers. (references)

Travel

Tunisia

ACTUAL DATES ARE BASED ON THE LUNAR CALENDAR AND VARY FROM YEAR TO YEAR. (references)

Vietnam

It is helpful to submit a meeting agenda, issues to be discussed and marketing material and/or technical information prior to the actual meeting. (references)

Qatar

Actual shipments of LNG from this port began in December 1996. The port is also used for exports of sulfur and gas condensates and has the ability to receive general cargo for use in LNG development projects. (references)

Women

Kenya

Women continue to face both legal and actual discrimination in other areas. (references)

Solomon Islands

While actual statistics are scarce, incidents of domestic violence appear to be common. (references)

Finland

Shelter officials state that the figure represents less than half of the number of actual incidents. (references)

Worker Rights

Albania

Actual conditions in the workplace generally were very poor and often dangerous. (references)

China

Informed observers contend that actual workplace deaths and injuries are significantly higher than official statistics report. (references)

Russia

Enterprises often use this number to avoid taxation by reporting the number of employees paid at the minimum wage instead of reporting actual salaries. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. Material things I know, or fell, or see; All else is immaterial to me. Jamrach Holobom

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Actual

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dianne Feinstein

Well, so far, that is what they have said. That is correct. But dependent on what the actual circumstances are, that may even change. I don't know.

Prince Albert of Monaco

Yeah. As I said, it's a running start, but the time cell is probably maybe eight feet away from the actual block where you start off from.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Actual

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797As commander in chief of the militia when called into the actual service of the United States, I have visited the places of general rendezvous to obtain more exact information and to direct a plan for ulterior movements.

John Adams

1797-1801In connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the Indian nations and to excite them to actual hostilities against the United States.

James Monroe

1817-1825The actual condition of the public finances more than realizes the favorable anticipations that were entertained of it at the opening of the last session of Congress.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837To ascertain in all cases whether the original claimant is living and this by actual personal inspection.

Martin van Buren

1837-1841Distinct sovereignties were in actual existence, whose cordial union was essential to the welfare and happiness of all.

Franklin Pierce

1853-1857One of the most impressive evidences of that wisdom is to be found in the fact that the actual working of our system has dispelled a degree of solicitude which at the outset disturbed bold hearts and far-reaching intellects.

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929Even the failures can not but be accounted useful and an immeasurable advance over threatened or actual warfare.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977People have been pushed into higher tax brackets by inflation, with consequent reduction in their actual spending power.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981We want a mutual limit on both the quality and the quantity of the giant nuclear arsenals of both nations, and then we want actual reductions in strategic arms as a major step toward the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Actual

"Actual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Actual" is used about 6,844 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)99.97%6,8421,413
Unclassified Items0.03%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6,844N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Actual

Expressions using "actual": actual aerial height actual age actual carrier Actual cautery actual damages actual deaths actual efficiency actual eviction actual existence actual flight path actual flow actual gas actual ground zero actual incidence actual market value actual population actual profile actual radius of the earth actual recipient actual risk actual score actual set point Actual sin actual size actual thing actual torso angle actual use actual utilisation actual utilization actual vehicle weight actual work time actual working hours actual yield actual zone of indecision assault occasioning actual bodily harm in actual fact international actual strength. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "actual": non-actual.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Actual

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

actual invoice

72

actual moda

11

actual invoice jeep

66

actual porn teen

10

actual time

62

actual diamond size

10

the actual

60

actual button title

9

actual picture of the titanic

42

actual tiger

9

actual inter player

38

actual atomico modelo

9

actual drawing

33

valor actual

9

actual battle bunker fought hill hill name where

28

musica actual

8

actual coach

27

actual literatura

8

actual birth child picture

25

actual murder photo

8

actual mujer

25

actual exam

8

valor actual neto

25

actual dimension lumber

7

actual color colors due may not represent shown var vinyl

23

911 actual call

7

actual inter

21

actual porn.com

7

actual iquique

13

actual ruler size

6

actual search

13

actual malice

6

actual photograph replace these

13

actual teatro

6

actual porn

12

5.1 actual drawing

6

actual lumber size

12

actual egipto

6

actual cash value

12

actual deluxe drawing

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Actual

Language Translations for "actual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

effektief (real). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

aktual (current, live, palpitating, present, present day, prevailing, topical), real (absolute, concrete, effective, flesh and blood, hard, historic, historical, objective, real, realistic, substantial, true, veritable), i vërtetë (authentic, bona fide, downright, effective, faithful, flesh and blood, genuine, objective, perfect, positive, practical, proper, pucka, real, right, substantial, true, truthful, uncoined, unfailing, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, virtual), i tanishëm (current, immediate, nowaday, present), i sotëm (contemporary, neoteric, nowaday, of today, present day), i pranishëm (present, those present), ekzistues (existent, existing, extant, in existence, present, prevailing). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

جار (current, neighbor), ‏فعلي (active, de facto, effective, effectual, factual, intrinsic, intrinsical, practical, verbal), ‏واقعي (concrete, de facto, down to earth, factual, hard, hardheaded, literal, naturalistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, prose, real, realistic, sober, tangible, true, virtual), ‏حقيقي (authentic, effective, essential, factual, genuine, intrinsic, intrinsical, positive, proper, real, realistic, right, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, veritable, very), ‏حالي (circumstantial, current, existent, existing, immediate, present, present day, running). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съществуващ (being, existent, existing, extant, living, ongoing), реален (concrete, live, natural, practicable, pragmatic, real, substantial, tangible), фактически (actually, as a matter of fact, de facto, factual, factually, in fact, morally, practical, practically, really, substantial, virtual, virtually), конкретен (concrete, material, objective, tangible), настоящ (existent, existing, present, running), истински (authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, precious, proper, pucka, pukka, pure, real, regular, regularly, right, right-down, sheer, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual), действителен (concrete, effective, factual, objective, operative, real, sound, true, valid, virtual). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

現實 (actuality, real, reality), 实际 (matter-of-fact, Practically), 實際 (practice, reality). (various references)

   

Czech

  

aktuální (current, live, ongoing, recent, relevant, topical, up to date), souèasný (coeval, concurrent, contemporaneous, contemporary, going, ongoing, present, present day, running, simultaneous, synchronic, up to date), skuteèný (effective, existent, existing, genuine, great, historical, intrinsic, intrinsical, practical, real, true, very, virtual), nynìjší (present). (various references)

   

Danish

  

virkelig (factual, practical, real). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

effectief (effective, effectual, efficacious, real). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

reala (practical, real), efektiva (real). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

veruligur (practical, real). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

واقعی (Essential, Genuine, Lifelike, Literal, Real, Right, Sterling, True, Unfeigned, Veracious, Veritable, Very, Virtual), حقیقی (Genuine, Intrinsic, Real, Rightful, True, Unfeigned, Veracious). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

varsinainen (essential, ordinary, proper, true), tosiasiallinen (founded on fact, real), todellinen (practical, real, true, veritable). (various references)

   

French

  

réel, effectif, actuel. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

hjoeddeisk (current, present, present-day), feitlik (actually, as a matter of fact, factual, in fact, indeed, real). (various references)

   

German

  

wirklich (absolutely, factual, genuine, genuinely, indeed, intrinsic, intrinsically, just, literally, objective, objectively, positively, practical, proper, quite, real, really, substantial, sure enough, true, Truly), effektiv (effective, effectively, in real terms, real), tatsächlich (absolutely, actually, as a matter of fact, defacto, effective, genuinely, in fact, indeed, objectively, practical, real, really, true, truly, virtual), faktisch (factual, real), aktuell (actually, current, currently, latest, live, newsworthy, present, present-day, prevailing, relevant, timely, topical, topically, up, up to date, up-to-date). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πραγματικός (factual, real, veritable). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ממשי (concrete, effective, live, material, palpable, real, substantial, substantive, tangible, veritable), מציאותי (down to earth, existent, real, realistic), עכשוי (contemporary, current, here and now, present, topical), עניני (businesslike, forthright, matter of course, objective, pertinent, practical, relevant), אמתי (genuine, real, sincere, true, truthful). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

valóságos (bodily, factual, live, practical, pukka, real, simple, veritable, very). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

raunverulegur (practical, real), árangursríkur (real). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sebenarnya (actually, in fact, proper, truly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

reale (actually, concrete, effective, factual, live, objective, practical, real, really, royal, royally, true). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

顕在 (actualized), 実勢 (real, true), アクチニウム系列 (acrylic, Actinides, actinium series, activation, active, active defense, active homing, active solar house, active sonar, active sportswear, activity, actress, actual time, actuality, orgasm). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アクチュアル , けんざい (actualized, building material, hard wood, in good health, well), じっせい (real, true). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

실제 (Practical, Pragmatic, Virtuality). (various references)

   

Manx

  

rieugh (material, real, true), jarroo (absolute, explicit, express, identical, indubitable), hene (even, own, self, very). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

virkelig (factual), faktisk (factual). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

efektivo (real). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

actualay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

rzeczywisty (practical, real), realny (practical, real). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

real (absolute, factual, incarnate, kingly, pence, penny, positive, practicable, practical, real, regal, royal, sterling, tangible, true, unfeigned, veritable, very, visual), verdadeiro (breathing, natural, practical, pucka, pukka, real, rightful, sincere, true, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, very). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

aievea (actually, real, really, true), adevårat (practical, real, true), adevãrat (correct, forsooth, genuine, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, proper, quite right, real, really and truly, regular, sheer, sooth, Square, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very), actual (current, existent, existing, fresh, modern, nowaday, present, ruling, topical, up to date), real (effective, effectual, factual, live, natural, proper, real, sheer, sooth, substantial, tangible, true, truthful, very), pozitiv (assertive, photo, plus, positive, positively, print), faptic (factual, real), efectiv (actually, effective, real, really, strength, substantial, virtually), concret (concrete, concretely, definite, practical, real). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фактический (factual, virtual), настоящий (arrant, honest, natural, perfect, practicable, present, pucka, pukka, real, regular, simon-pure, unadulterated, unfabled, veritable), актуальный (of current interest, topical), действительный (effective, factual, objective, operative, real, valid, virtual). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

aktuelan (current, going, up to date), stvaran (objective, real, substantial, unfeigned, unimaginative, veritable). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

actual (current, existing, flowing, going, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, reigning, topic, topical, up-to-date), real (doable, king, king size, kingly, real, regal, royal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

verklig (factual, fair, intrinsic, literal, perfect, practical, proper, pucka, real, regular, substantial, substantive, true, true born), real (factual, practical, real), faktisk (de facto, factual, literal, real, virtual). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

asıl (authentic, Cardinal, central, elementary, extraction, foundation, fountain-head, gist, groundwork, in chief, intrinsic, main, master, origin, original, origination, pivotal, principal, principally, provenance, real, root stock, true, virtual), aktüel (contemporary, newsworthy, topical, up to date), mevcut (adsum, attendant, available, existent, existing, in hand, physical, present, prevalent, stock, store, substantial, supply, total, total number of attendance, visible), gerçek (actualities, authentic, bona fide, dinkum, earnest, exact, fact, factual, for real, genuine, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, intrinsic, literal, low down, lowdown, proper, pucka, pukka, real, reality, right, rightful, sincere, sooth, sterling, straight out, substantial, tangible, the real, the true, troth, true, truth, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veracity, veritable, Verity, very, virtual), güncel (live, living, newsworthy, timely, topical, up to date), fiili (de facto, factual), şimdiki (current, present, present day, the present). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

юindiki (present). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сучасний (coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, latter day, modern, neoteric, new, new-day, nowaday, present day, recent, up to date, up-dated, with it), справжній (active, authentic, factual, genuine, honest, intrinsic, intrinsical, natural, operative, original, practical, pukka, real, sheer, simon-pure, sincere, true, true born, unadulterated, undoubted, unfeigned, veridic, veridical, veritable, very), актуальний (topical), поточний (current, instant, operating, recurring, ruling), дійсний (absolute, active, authentic, available, indicative, objective, operative, real, valid). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thật sự (effective, regular, serious, strict), thật (genuine, really, regular, sterling, substantial, true, truly), thực tế (actuality, business-like, down-to-earth, reality), hiện thời; hiện nay, có thật hiện tại. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gwirioneddol (genuine, real, true), gwir (authentic, true, truth), gweithredol (active, virtual). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Actual

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

germanam, germane, germanus. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

actualis, realis. (various references)

Old French900-1400

actuel. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

real. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Actual

Derivations

Words beginning with "actual": actualities, actuality, actualization, actualizations, actualize, actualized, actualizes, actualizing, actually. (additional references)

Words ending with "actual": artifactual, contractual, counterfactual, factual, noncontractual, nonfactual, tactual. (additional references)

Words containing "actual": contractually, factualism, factualisms, factualist, factualists, factualities, factuality, factually, factualness, factualnesses, tactually. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Actual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accusal, acetal, Acquah, acrual, acruel, acta, actea, Actel, actorly, actu, actua, actuable, actualar, actuall, actualls, actuals, actualy, actuel, Actuelle, Actuels, actural, Amthaal, Arcturan, Arcueil, Ashtal, Astohall, Ataul, Atul, Atwal, Aucctu, ectual, ictal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Actual"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "actual" (pronounced a"kkhuwul or a"kshul)
5-kh u w u lspiritual, textual, mutual, perceptual, sensual.
4-u w u lindividual, casual, heterosexual, homosexual, semiannual, unusual, usual, visual.
3-w u lbilingual, coequal, equal, monolingual, multilingual, sequel, tranquil, unequal.
3-sh u linertial, antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, confidential, controversial, crucial, essential, experiential, facial, financial, glacial, impartial, spatial, special, superficial, infomercial, initial, interprovincial, interracial, judicial, jurisprudential, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonfinancial, nonracial, nonresidential, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, potential, prejudicial, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, racial, sacrificial, social, uncontroversial, unofficial.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Actual

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-t-u"

-2 letters: acta, caul, cult, tala, talc.

-3 letters: aal, act, ala, alt, cat, cut, lac, lat, tau, uta.

-4 letters: aa, al, at, la, ta, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-t-u"
 

+1 letter: factual, tactual.

 

+2 letters: actually, aculeate, calathus, calctufa, canulate, capitula, casualty, catapult, claustra, comatula, curtalax, jaculate, lacunate, maculate, nautical, tenacula.

 

+3 letters: accentual, acetabula, acidulate, acquittal, actuality, actualize, actuarial, apiculate, arcuately, articular, aspectual, auctorial, autoclave, calctufas, calculate, cantaloup, canulated, canulates, capitular, cartulary, catalogue, catapults, caterwaul, causality, claustral, coagulant, coagulate, comatulae, creatural, ejaculate, factually, jaculated, jaculates, maculated, maculates, portulaca, sacculate, tactually, trabecula, unactable, vacuolate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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