actual
/ˈækʃuəl/ adjective B2- relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical
- Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact. · the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion· The actual government expenses dramatically exceed the budget.
- Physical rather than virtual. · Unlike the other phishing attacks discussed earlier, these attacks reach you via your actual mailbox.
- in action at the time being; now existing; current.
- Used as intensifier to emphasise a following noun; exact, specific, very.
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It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering.
She knew not how to support herself, and, from actual weakness, sat down and cried for half an hour.
“So that what we presumed to be merely the betrothal feast turns out to be the actual wedding dinner!” said Danglars.
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