Thesaurus / seeming
FEEDBACKHow to use seeming in a sentence
Alone the supreme Self in him looked calmly on, seeming to lessen the part that trembled and knew fear.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODShe stopped, and turned to face him, an incredible shyness seeming to cause her to avoid his gaze.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINITheir obstreperous loyalty might seem inconsistent with this unideal character, but it is only seeming.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYWith her little satin shoe she tapped the carpet, biting her under lip and seeming to be listening.
DOPESAX ROHMER"I had hoped you would have saved me from it, Marius," she answered him, her eyes seeming to gaze down into the depths of his.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIThe captain, a frown between his frank-seeming, wide-set eyes, started round to look at the boy.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIProbably he lays hold of the elements of experience and casts them into a seeming retort of reveries.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEThe fjord below lay as smooth as a mirror, the outermost headlands and islands seeming to stand out of the water.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDHe is generally esteemed by the Boston people—all seeming to know him.
THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATESMARTIN R. DELANYIn a moment it began to crawl down the side of the street, seeming to fill the whole city with silence.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONWORDS RELATED TO SEEMING
- apparent
- apparently right
- beguiling
- captious
- casuistic
- colorable
- credible
- deceptive
- delusive
- empty
- erroneous
- fallacious
- false
- flattering
- hollow
- idle
- illogical
- inaccurate
- incorrect
- likely
- nugatory
- ostensible
- ostentatious
- plausible
- presumable
- presumptive
- pretentious
- probable
- seeming
- sophistic
- sophistical
- sophisticated
- spurious
- unsound
- untrue
- vain
- wrong
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- cursory
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- frivolous
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- one-dimensional
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- perfunctory
- peripheral
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shallow
- shoal
- silly
- sketchy
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- slight
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- trivial
- uncritical
- warped
- aerial
- artificial
- chimerical
- delusive
- dreamlike
- fabled
- fabulous
- false
- fanciful
- fictitious
- fictive
- figmental
- hallucinatory
- ideal
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- impalpable
- insincere
- insubstantial
- intangible
- invented
- legendary
- misleading
- mock
- mythical
- nebulous
- nonexistent
- notional
- ostensible
- phantasmagoric
- pretended
- seeming
- sham
- storybook
- suppositious
- supposititious
- theoretical
- unbelievable
- unsubstantial
- visionary
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