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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seemingly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
apparently/seemingly random
▪ a wave of apparently random attacks
apparently/seemingly unaware
▪ The man, apparently unaware that he was being filmed, tried to break into the house.
seemingly impossible (=seeming to be impossible)
▪ He managed to win the chess game from a seemingly impossible position.
seemingly/apparently oblivious
▪ Congress was seemingly oblivious to these events.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
contradictory
▪ Many of these seemingly contradictory properties of the agents are related to dose.
▪ The editors of Consumer Reports Travel Letter thus were struck by the seemingly contradictory results of three recent airline quality reports.
▪ With these two seemingly contradictory attitudes in mind, underline all the adjectives you've used.
▪ The new account of his life shows a complex and at times seemingly contradictory person.
▪ Case said these seemingly contradictory deals were simple exercises in economic balance of power.
endless
▪ His words came out in a seemingly endless flow of support and approbation.
▪ From more than a mile away, the figures are swallowed by the seemingly endless Everglades.
▪ Everywhere we looked, around every corner, over every rise, a seemingly endless array of lochs and lochans beckoned.
▪ To some critics, this seemingly endless procession of school fund-raisers has a serious drawback.
▪ The range of environmental services on offer is seemingly endless - from environmental auditing to public relations.
▪ There are few hills to break the seemingly endless vista of lakes and forests.
▪ The past year has charted a rocky course for the Rialto and its advocates, with seemingly endless trials and tribulations.
impossible
▪ However, the new minister on arrival soon found that he was faced with a seemingly impossible task.
▪ Thick white branches arch as far out as the tree is tall, sometimes at seemingly impossible angles.
▪ As far as motion video, in particular, is concerned, the constraints of available technology force multimedia into a seemingly impossible situation.
▪ Sexually menacing and effeminately feral, he prowled cat-like across the stage, perching on amps and lights in seemingly impossible positions.
▪ The measure of his heart is how he deals with adversity and the way he overcomes a seemingly impossible situation.
▪ Not only a master, but a natural comedian, because he found humour in seemingly impossible situations.
▪ The men can freelance, depend on their height to make seemingly impossible moves.
innocent
▪ This caution obviously arises from the need to minimize the risk of long-term side-effects caused by seemingly innocent new substances.
▪ One turned up with the same tiny, seemingly innocent substitution.
▪ Each team was well aware of the danger that lurked on the seemingly innocent roads.
▪ Her fantasies, though seemingly innocent, have some genetic connection to his psychopathic deceits.
innocuous
▪ Whatever censorship takes place in libraries, even of seemingly innocuous indecent material, can reverberate elsewhere.
▪ Even seemingly innocuous turnstile-exits with interlocking horizontal bars give my sister pause, however.
▪ Some were communiqu s from extremist groups overseas; others were seemingly innocuous.
▪ It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
interminable
▪ For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal.
▪ The seemingly interminable day was finally reaching its dark conclusion.
▪ Her labour was, like her pregnancy, seemingly interminable and difficult.
▪ The system thus avoids the seemingly interminable delays that bedevil on-line services when they are used to transmit graphics.
▪ And there was all that seemingly interminable, lonely hanging around.
▪ As of Saturday, both of those seemingly interminable droughts had ended, meaning that only the wait for Magic Johnson remains.
▪ As of Saturday, both seemingly interminable droughts were over, sending historians in the organization scurrying for the record book.
intractable
▪ Even more seemingly intractable problems will be posed by attempts to store virtual reality.
▪ Although here, too, Chicago had fared better than many older cities, unemployment remained a serious, seemingly intractable problem.
▪ It provided simple answers to seemingly intractable questions.
▪ Do not concern yourself with this seemingly intractable problem.
▪ It should be one which presents a seemingly intractable problem.
▪ What he was really saying, though, is that we face seemingly intractable problems and that the solutions will be difficult.
▪ But remember: you have to believe that the seemingly intractable problem can be cracked.
simple
▪ A seemingly simple recipe for a secure investment has, however, developed complications worthy of a 007 plot.
▪ The seemingly simple act of snap, hold and kick turned into fodder for blooper highlights.
▪ They may be as seemingly simple, even cornball, as Walt Disney.
unaware
▪ Nowadays he is a sanctimonious old man seemingly unaware of his own involvement in the problems of his family.
▪ The casual lawyer is telling his story somberly seemingly unaware of any of the hubbub around us.
▪ She turned the page with elegant fingers, seemingly unaware that Frankie had entered the room.
▪ He has grown reclusive in recent years, seemingly unaware that he is no longer under house arrest.
unrelated
▪ Changes to any part of the system may make it necessary to change other seemingly unrelated components.
▪ Three seemingly unrelated items came together in a way...
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I looked down at the seemingly endless expanse of green of the Serengeti Plain.
▪ Running a mile in under 4 minutes was a seemingly impossible task.
▪ The music was strange, seemingly without a melody.
▪ There is seemingly nothing we can do to stop the plans from going ahead.
▪ We now have a seemingly endless choice of TV channels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Charles Nagy was the opposite, seemingly ready to be assisted out of Camden Yards a half-dozen times.
▪ Every year, in fact, seemingly more celebrations, demonstrations and displays mark its passing.
▪ For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal.
▪ I could see my hand, lying palm upwards and seemingly a great distance from me.
▪ It is a long and seemingly insurmountable list of challenges to the health and survival of the reef.
▪ It was pretty carefully set up: First, a report of a seemingly scientific study.
▪ One by one, the aged tottered in, each one seemingly more decrepit than the one before.
▪ She talked about the language for some time, seemingly against her better judgment, drawn by his earnest desire to learn.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seemingly

Seemingly \Seem"ing*ly\, adv. In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.

This the father seemingly complied with.
--Addison.

Wiktionary
seemingly

adv. To appearances; apparently.

WordNet
seemingly

adv. from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor" [syn: apparently, ostensibly, on the face of it]

Usage examples of "seemingly".

They had seemingly endless space on the acreage, and Scott thought it would be fun, and profitable, to build a treehouse in a cluster of evergreens.

The Akka guide strode beside him, seemingly unperturbed by this change of plan.

But even as Americans correctly contrasted the freedom of the American way of life with the coercive constraints of life in the Communist bloc, they often forgot the seductive constraints of their own seemingly apolitical system.

The seat he sat upon was of the sort called throne, seemingly made of golden metal picked out in glittering stones, wide enough for his massive girth, draped in blue silk, astand upon a platform which raised the seat above the level of the others in the chamber.

Amid this vast stretch of stars, with seemingly endless planets an which lived not a soul to call him Joe, he could have really enjoyed the arrival from far away or an irate human voice bawling him out good and proper for some error, real or fancied.

It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire, including various forms of learning, while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells - no more than 20,000 neurons in all, arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal.

Mather not only acknowledged that there were bewitched people but also reminded readers of the seemingly unending diversity of the invisible world, occurrences God permitted to afflict his people.

She was generally at the centre of things, surrounded by a bickering and admiring crowd of seemingly lesser mortals, which sometimes included Jalila.

It is far too easy to be blindsided in this seemingly empty and lifeless desert.

Brummel had never in his life seen sweet, seemingly vulnerable Mary Busche so feisty.

The winding alleys and small streets of Busk were packed with people, with the rest of the town seemingly out on their balconies, drinking and eating and waving and gossiping.

I, small, white, was chained by the neck to that great rock on the seemingly endless plain.

Whoever had planned it all had succeeded in the seemingly impossible task of combining the ambience of a bank with that of a massage parlor.

People fear these crimes precisely because of the seemingly random nature of the murders.

In this method, this essential principle of the positive school of criminology, you will find another reason for the seemingly slow advance of this school.