Actually
adverb'ækʧuəli
Adverb
in actual fact
“to be nominally but not actually independent”
“no one actually saw the shark”
“large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt”
Similar:Reallyused to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly
“you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out”
“she actually spoke Latin”
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