seem

Meaning

1. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
2. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

Synonyms

appear

look

look like

appear to be

feel

resemble

act

think

🤔

be like

show

as if

be apparently

look as if

defective

display

seen

evident

found

sound

🔉

perceived

if

impact

impinge

impress

influence

introduce

kick in

like

likewise

live

manifest

meseems

methinks

move

occur

offer

peer

prepossess

present

probable

quasi

redound

seemingly

sensed

shew

similar

similarly

smell

👃

strike

suppose

Translations

sembler

parecer

scheinen

sembrare

parere

paraître

lijken

parecer

schijnen

semblar

apparire

overkomen

dünken

φαίνομαι

videor

Pronounced as (IPA)

/siːm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: semen

Cognate with Scots: seme

Cognate with Danish: sømme

Cognate with Faroese: søma

Cognate with Old Norse: sómi

Cognate with Danish: somme

Cognate with Old Norse: sœmr

Cognate with Old English: sēman

Cognate with Old English: sōm

In summary

From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).

Sentences

Essentially , we humans seem to wish to separate spacetime into slices of constant time .

The microstructures of martensite and bainite at first seem quite similar .