actual
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (5)
- presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible“the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different”“actual and imagined conditions”Synonyms: existent
- taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated“we saw the actual wedding on television”“filmed the actual beating”
- being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something“her actual motive”“a literal solitude like a desert — G.K.Chesterton”“a genuine dilemma”Synonyms: genuineliteralreal
- existing in act or fact“rocks and trees...the actual world”“actual heroism”“the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced”Synonyms: factual
- being or existing at the present moment“the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West”
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. --Fortnightly Review. [1913 Webster]
1.Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Her walking and other actual performances.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]
2.Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion. [1913 Webster]
3.In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. [1913 Webster]
Actual cautery. See under Cautery.
Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin." [1913 Webster]
Syn: Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real. [1913 Webster]