seem
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- pronunciation:
- sim
- features:
- Homophone Note
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
seems, seeming, seemed |
| definition 1: |
When your mom seems tired, it means that she looks or acts tired. Maybe she is sitting in a chair with her eyes closed, or maybe she doesn't want to talk or do her usual things. If a problem seems very difficult to you, it feels difficult to you right now, or it looks as if it might be difficult. It's possible that it is actually easy, though.
I sat next to Cody on the first day of class because he seemed really nice. Now he's my best friend.Our neighbor seemed really unfriendly at first, but he usually smiles or waves at us now.- synonyms:
- appear, look
- similar words:
- sound
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| definition 2: |
We sometimes use "seems" to talk about how a situation appears to us. If it seems that a store is no longer open for business, for example, it means that it looks as if the store has closed. Being closed is how the store's situation appears to us. If there seems to be a problem, then it looks as if there is a problem. It looks to us as if a problem exists.
It seems that school will be cancelled tomorrow because of the snow.There seems to be an accident further up the road.- synonyms:
- appear
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seam (a line where two things join)?
Seem and
seam sound alike but have different meanings.