seem

Other forms of seem

past tense

seemed·

present participle

seeming·

third person

seems·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about seem

What does seem mean?

seem means "give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seem?

seem has 1 syllable: seem. In IPA it is /ˈsim/.

What is another word for seem?

Close synonyms include look, appear, appear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seem a common word?

seem is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with seem?

2 words rhyme with seem. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.