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Actually

adverb

In actual fact. Synonym: really. "No one actually saw the shark" , "Large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"

Used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly. Synonym: in reality. "She actually spoke Latin" , "They thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets" , "People who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous"

At the present moment.

As a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis. "Actually, I haven't seen the film" , "I'm not all that surprised actually" , "She hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually"

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"Actually" Quotes from Famous Books

... intends therefore to return to the beaten track, base and ignoble though it be, which prejudice has laid out as the only avenue to dramatic success; but it may not be unprofitable to state here, that the first representation of The Resources of Quinola actually redounded to the advantage of the claqueurs, the only persons who enjoyed any triumph in an evening entertainment from which their ...

— The Resources of Quinola • Honore de Balzac

... attention. This feat of the boy fascinated her. The water between them made him look remote, delicate and unearthly—neither boy nor fish. His head, she could see, was almost touching the bottom. She fancied that he was actually touching bottom with his hands. Yes, he was. Bending low over the water she saw his brown fingers, stretched out and well divided, promenading over the basin of the sea as lightly and springily as the claws of a crab tip-toeing to some hiding-place. Presently he let himself down a ...

— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens

... late the next day, however, that Ford Foster completed his inquiries. He took the afternoon train for the city, satisfied that, much as he knew before he came, he had actually learned a good deal ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various

... semi-circle round the face of the fort held by the cavalry, and displaying nearly 200 standards whose gay colours were representative of every tribe on the border, they charged right up to the walls. Some of them actually got across the tangled barbed wire and were destroyed in the enclosure. But all efforts were defeated by the garrison, and towards morning the attack melted away, and only the usual sharpshooters remained. Some of these displayed a singular recklessness. One man climbed up ...

— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill

... the countless varieties of mechanism appertaining to different vegetable and animal fabrics have been rendered fit for performing those special processes which, by reason in each case of some special arrangement of parts, they actually do perform with such marvellous precision. It is a total mistake to suppose that the eye was meant for seeing, or the ear for hearing, or the heart for initiating and regulating the circulation of the blood, or nervous ...

— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton

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