actually

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈæk(t)ʃᵿli/]

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1. actually (adv) — sense 1

Definition: In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

Example: His promises did not correspond with what he actually did.

2. actually (adv) — sense 2

Definition: Actively.

Example: Neither actually […] nor passively.

3. actually (adv) — sense 3

Definition: Currently; at the time.

Example: At the time whereof we are writing, though the Great George was on the throne and ladies wore gigots and large combs like tortoise-shell shovels in their hair, instead of the simple sleeves and lovely wreaths which are actually in fashion, the manners of the very polite world were not, I take it, essentially different from those of the present day: and their amusements pretty similar.

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