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Synonyms for seem

appear

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  • appear
  • give the impression of being
  • look
  • sound
  • look to be
  • show signs of being
  • sound as if you are
  • look as if you are
  • come across as being
  • look like you are
  • strike you as being
  • have the or every appearance of being
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for seem

to have the appearance of

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Synonyms for seem

seem to be true, probable, or apparent

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appear to exist

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appear to one's own mind or opinion

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These dispositions and orders only seem worse than previous ones because the battle of Borodino was the first Napoleon did not win.
Strange as at first glance it may seem to suppose that the Massacre of St.
But it seems as if I couldn't help taking a peep now and then, in advance--with a Bostonian.
She is lovely to look at; she seems so modest and retiring.
The Castle.--The gray of the morning has passed, and the sun is high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged, whether with trees or hills I know not, for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed.
The time seemed interminable as we swept on our way, now in almost complete darkness, for the rolling clouds obscured the moon.
"It seems to me that I have been through so much the last fortnight." she said.
"What one would not admire in others seems natural enough in you.
"It seems to be a cheerful sort of household," Kinsley observed.
She said nothing, but this did not seem to strike him.
All day long it would seem that the birds were coming thicker from all quarters.
It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
His sardonic manner, his hostile aloofness, had made it difficult to know him; but it seemed to Philip, looking back, that there had been in him a tragic force, which sought vainly to express itself in painting.
But those other men seemed never to grow weary; they were fighting with their old speed.
The very furniture in the room seemed to have shrunk since she saw it before: the slag in the tapestry looked more like a ghost in his ghostly blue-green world; the volumes of polite literature in the bookcase looked more like immovable imitations of books.