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Actual

adjective

Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible. Synonym: existent. "Actual and imagined conditions"

Taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated. "Filmed the actual beating"

Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something. Synonyms: genuine, literal, real. "A literal solitude like a desert" , "A genuine dilemma"

Existing in act or fact. Synonym: factual. "Actual heroism" , "The actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"

Being or existing at the present moment.

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"Actual" Quotes from Famous Books

... pressure downwards (of which the spectroscope would infallibly give notice) in its gaseous constituents; whereas under the sole influence of the sun's attractive power, their density should be multiplied many million times in the descent through a mere fraction of their actual depth.[594] ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... The whole idea is nothing less than atrocious; and, in our judgment, the Adapter's actual purpose in putting it forth is to make his own superlative goodness seem proved ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 • Various

... App. 119 is best. Push-buttons are handy where used only for experiments, and not for the actual sending ...

— How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus • Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

... miles and for all he knew other armies, far to right and left, might be singing it, too. The immense volume of the song drowned out everything, even that tremor in the air, caused by the big guns. John's heart beat so hard that it caused actual physical pain in his side, and presently, although he was unconscious of it, he was thundering out the verses with ...

— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler

... the Bahr-el-Ghazal. Alluvial deposits have filled up all but its deepest depression, which is known as Birket Nu; but in ages preceding our era it must still have been vast enough to suggest to Egyptian soldiers and boatmen the idea of an actual sea opening into the ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

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