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Definition: Actual |
ActualAdjective1. 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) |
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Language | Dans un tableau sociologique: amount of learning: expected, actual. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ActualSynonyms: de facto (adj), existent (adj), factual (adj), genuine (adj), literal (adj), real (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: de jure (adj), potential (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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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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) | |
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![]() | "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. |
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| "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." |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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 |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | As 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 | 1797-1801 | In 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 | 1817-1825 | The 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 | 1829-1837 | To ascertain in all cases whether the original claimant is living and this by actual personal inspection. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | Distinct sovereignties were in actual existence, whose cordial union was essential to the welfare and happiness of all. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | One 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 | 1923-1929 | Even the failures can not but be accounted useful and an immeasurable advance over threatened or actual warfare. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | People have been pushed into higher tax brackets by inflation, with consequent reduction in their actual spending power. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We 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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.97% | 6,842 | 1,413 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,844 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | germanam, germane, germanus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | actualis, realis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | actuel. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | real. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "actual" (pronounced a"kkhuwul or a"kshul) |
| 5 | -kh u w u l | spiritual, textual, mutual, perceptual, sensual. |
| 4 | -u w u l | individual, casual, heterosexual, homosexual, semiannual, unusual, usual, visual. |
| 3 | -w u l | bilingual, coequal, equal, monolingual, multilingual, sequel, tranquil, unequal. |
| 3 | -sh u l | inertial, 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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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