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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
seemly is an adjective meaning "according with custom or propriety". It carries one recorded sense.
according with custom or propriety
“her becoming modesty”
“comely behavior”
“it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money”
“seemly behavior”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for seemly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.