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# seemingly

adverb; adjective (seeming)

«seemingly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Apparently, so it looks, though it may not be true. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/#m1)
2. Looking like something, though perhaps not really so. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/#m2)

### In the lessons

a clue that something looks true but may hide the truth, as with a seemingly poor man in a tale

### Examples

- The seemingly easy sum was tricky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/#x1)
- Seemingly, the road was empty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/#x2)
- She was seemingly calm, but inside she was worried. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «seemingly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«seemingly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/seemingly.html) on Mova free.