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# seemingly

«seemingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Apparently, so it looks, though it may not be true** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb; adjective (seeming)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) Looking like something, though perhaps not really so. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/#m2)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seemingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seemingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.