Appeared vs Seemed - What's the difference?
appeared | seemed |
(appear)
(label) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
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* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jeremy Bernstein), volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (label) To come before the public.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 (label) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
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* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):
(label) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
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* (rfdate) (John Milton):
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, magazine=(American Scientist)
, author= To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (seem)
(lb) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
* 1813 (14thc.), (Dante Alighieri), The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.
*:He, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= (lb) To befit; to beseem.
:(Spenser)
As verbs the difference between appeared and seemed
is that appeared is (appear) while seemed is (seem).appeared
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(en verb)- And Godthe dry land appear .
A Palette of Particles, passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared . Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.}}
citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- We must all appear before the judgment seat.
- One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear .
- It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
- Of their vain contest appeared no end.
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
Philip J. Bushnell, title=
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene,
- They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
Usage notes
* Senses 4, 5. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (seem) lookAntonyms
* (to become visible) disappear, vanishseemed
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(en verb)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa”(season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}
