Seemingly

Definition

seem /si:m/ v ~ (to sb) (to be) sth; ~ like sth (not used in continuous tenses) ထင္ရသည္။ သေဘာရသည္။ ျမင္သည္။ She seems happy (to me). ❍ Do whatever seems best. ❍ It seems (to me) (to be) the best solution. ❍ It seemed like a disaster at the time. ❍ It seems (to me) that she's right. ❍ It would seem that…(ie a cautious way of saying‘It seems that…’) ❍ ‘She's leaving. ’‘So it seems (ie People say so). ’ ❍ They seem to know what they're doing. ❍ I can't seem to stop coughing. တဟြပ္ဟြပ္ေခ်ာင္းဆိုးတာ မရပ္ပဲ မရပ္ႏိုင္သလိုပါပဲ။ ❏ it seems/seemed as if…/as though… [ IDM ] ထင္ရသည္။ …ပံုေပါက္သည္။ It always seemed as if/though they would marry in the end. ❏ seeming adj ( fml ) ထင္ရေသာ။ …ဟန္ရိွေသာ။ အျပင္ပန္း။ အေပၚယံ။ seeming intelligence/interest/anger ❍ Despite his seeming deafness, he could hear every word. ❏ seemingly adv အျမင္အားျဖင့္။ အျပင္ပန္းအားျဖင့္။ They were seemingly unaware of the decision.

Examples

1. John seems nice.
2. [seem happy/genuine/relaxed etc to someone] : He seems happy enough to me.
3. [seem like] : Going out for lunch seemed like a good idea.
4. [seem to do something] : She seemed to take very good care of herself.
5. [seem (to be) someone/something] : Susan seems like a very sensible person.
6. [it (that)] : It seems there’s going to be a slight delay.
7. [seem to have done something] : I seem to have forgotten your name.
8. [can’t seem to do something] : We can’t seem to get this computer to work.