actual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
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Etymology: From Middle English actual, actuel (“active”), from Anglo-Norman actuel, actual, and its source Late Latin actuālis (“active, practical”), from Latin actus (“act, action, performance”), from agere (“to do; to act”) + -alis (“-al”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, from the root *h₂eǵ-. By surface analysis, act + -u- + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: actuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other actuall performances, what (at any time) haue you heard her say?
Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is […] by a special prayer or action, […] given to God.
Apparently, the holy Doctor was referring to actual, rather than original, sin; yet the basis of his argument for Mary's holiness, the divine maternity, would logically lead to the conclusion that she was free from original sin also.
gloss: Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion
The actual government expenses dramatically exceed the budget.
The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
gloss: in action at the time being; now existing; current.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If this be your actual situation, compared to the situation to which you were called, as it were by the voice of God and man, I cannot find it in my heart to congratulate you on the choice you have made, or the success which has attended your endeavours.
To my actual feelings it seems incredible that I could ever believe that I believed in Transubstantiation!
gloss: Used as intensifier to emphasise a following noun; exact, specific, very.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [H]ow the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
gloss: an actual, real one; notably:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: an actual, real one; notably:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bravo Six Actual, this is Charlie One. Come in, over.
gloss: Reality, usually with the definite article.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There was that desolate air about the chamber which is peculiar to an ill-furnished London room: cities need luxuries, were it only to conceal the actual.
Synonyms: positive
Related words: activity
actor
actuary
certain
genuine
Derived words: actual bodily harm
actual cash value
actual cost
actual flying time
actualism
actualist
actualistic
actuality
actualization
actualize
actually
actual malice
actualness
actual neurosis
actual occasions
actual parameter
actual sin
nonactual
unactual
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: действи́телен
roman: dejstvítelen
lang: Dutch
word: eigenlijk
lang: Dutch
word: feitelijk
lang: Finnish
word: suoranainen
lang: German
word: tatsächlich
lang: Italian
word: presente
lang: Portuguese
word: em si
lang: Russian
word: настоя́щий
roman: nastojáščij
lang: Turkish
word: esas
lang: Turkish
word: asıl