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seeming 音标拼音: [s'imɪŋ] a. 表面上的
n. 外观 表面上的外观 seeming adj 1: appearing as such but not necessarily so; " for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; " the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; " the ostensible truth of their theories"; " his seeming honesty" [ synonym: { apparent( a)}, { ostensible}, { seeming( a)}] Seem \ Seem\ ( s[= e] m), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Seemed} ( s[= e] md); p. pr. & vb. n. { Seeming}.] [ OE. semen to seem, to become, befit, AS. s[= e] man to satisfy, pacify; akin to Icel. saema to honor, to bear with, conform to, saemr becoming, fit, s[= o] ma to beseem, to befit, sama to beseem, semja to arrange, settle, put right, Goth. samjan to please, and to E. same. The sense is probably due to the adj. seemly. [ root] 191. See { Same}, a., and cf. { Seemly}.] To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one' s apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as. " It now seemed probable." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] Thou picture of what thou seem' st. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death. -- Prov. xiv. 12. [ 1913 Webster] { It seems}, it appears; it is understood as true; it is said. [ 1913 Webster] A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To appear; look. Usage: { Seem}, { Appear}. To appear has reference to a thing' s being presented to our view; as, the sun appears; to seem is connected with the idea of semblance, and usually implies an inference of our mind as to the probability of a thing' s being so; as, a storm seems to be coming. " The story appears to be true," means that the facts, as presented, go to show its truth; " the story seems to be true," means that it has the semblance of being so, and we infer that it is true. " His first and principal care being to appear unto his people such as he would have them be, and to be such as he appeared." -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] Ham. Ay, madam, it is common. Queen. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not " seems." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Seeming \ Seem" ing\, a. Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth. [ 1913 Webster] My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Seeming \ Seem" ing\, n. 1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. [ 1913 Webster] These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Apprehension; judgment. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Nothing more clear unto their seeming. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 205 Moby Thesaurus words for " seeming": Barmecidal, Barmecide, Prospero, acting, affectation, airiness, airy, alleged, angle, apparent, apparitional, appearance, appearing, aspect, assumed, attitudinizing, autistic, bearing, bluff, bluffing, cheating, chimeric, color, colorable, colored, coloring, configuration, cortical, deception, deceptive, delusion, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusiveness, delusory, demeanor, dereistic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dreamlike, dreamy, effect, eidolon, epidermic, erroneous, evident, exomorphic, exterior, exteriority, external, externality, externalness, extrinsic, extrinsicality, facade, face, facet, fakery, faking, fallacious, fallaciousness, false, false air, false appearance, false face, false front, false light, false show, falseness, falsity, fantastic, fashion, feature, feigned, feigning, feint, figure, foreignness, form, four- flushing, fraud, fringe, front, gestalt, gilded, gilt, gloss, guise, humbug, humbuggery, idealization, illusion, illusional, illusionary, illusionism, illusionist, illusive, illusiveness, illusory, image, imaginary, imago, immateriality, imposture, impression, light, likeness, lineaments, look, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, manner, masquerade, meretricious, meretriciousness, mien, misleading, open, openness, ostensible, ostentation, out, outer, outermost, outerness, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward appearance, outward show, outward- facing, outwardness, peripheral, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phase, phasis, plausible, playacting, pose, posing, posture, prestidigitation, pretended, pretense, pretension, pretext, professed, public, purported, reference, regard, representation, respect, roundabout, self- deceptive, self- deluding, semblance, shallowness, sham, shape, show, showing, side, simulacrum, simulation, slant, sleight of hand, so- called, sorcerer, sorcery, specious, specious appearance, speciousness, spectral, style, superficial, superficiality, supposititious, surface, tinsel, total effect, twist, unactual, unactuality, unfounded, unreal, unreality, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, varnish, view, viewpoint, visible, visionary, window dressing, wise
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