as an actual fact; really (as sentence modifier): actually, I haven't seen him at present
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ac•tu•al•ly
(ak′cho̅o̅ ə lē),USA pronunciation adv.
- as an actual or existing fact;
really.
- 1400–50; late Middle English; see actual, -ly
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'actually' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-ette
- A, a
- Biedermeier
- Breed's Hill
- Coriolis effect
- Dionysius the Areopagite
- Five Towns
- Laffer curve
- Potemkin
- Sisyphean
- T-number
- aridity index
- attested form
- audible
- bad
- bastard
- belligerency
- bluff
- brother
- bulrush
- circle
- conception
- contain
- contiguous
- current
- curtilage
- de facto
- demonstrator
- drumhead
- déjà vu
- effect
- effective
- ex facto
- experience
- eye dialect
- eyewitness
- fable
- fact
- fairly
- fake
- false-memory syndrome
- fatal
- figurehead
- fire sale
- flesh
- floor
- foreign-flag
- gamesmanship
- grasp
- hair