Usually means: In reality; in fact; truly.
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  1. actually: Merriam-Webster
  2. actually: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. actually: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. actually: Collins English Dictionary
  5. actually: Vocabulary.com
  6. Actually, actually, actually: Wordnik
  7. actually: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. actually: Wiktionary
  9. actually: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. actually: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. actually: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Actually, actually: Dictionary.com
  13. actually: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Actually (album), Actually (film), Actually: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Actually: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. actually: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. actually: Rhymezone
  18. actually: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. actually: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. actually: FreeDictionary.org
  21. actually: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. actually: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. actually: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. actually: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. actually: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. actually: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. actually: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. actually: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  (modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Actively.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Currently; at the time.

Similar:
really, in reality, supposedly, just, probably, hardly, never, definitely, necessarily, basically, more...

Opposite:
theoretically, hypothetically, supposedly, ostensibly, seemingly

Types:
really, truly, factually, genuinely, honestly, more...

Phrases:
Love Actually, Red Nose Day Actually, actually existing, looks happy but actually dark, do they know u r actually intelligent, more...



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Similar:
really, in reality, supposedly, just, probably, hardly, never, definitely, necessarily, basically, more...

Opposite:
theoretically, hypothetically, supposedly, ostensibly, seemingly

Types:
really, truly, factually, genuinely, honestly, more...

Phrases:
Love Actually, Red Nose Day Actually, actually existing, looks happy but actually dark, do they know u r actually intelligent, what actually happened, actually useful, actually works, more...



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