Entry Word: appear

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to come into view <a police car appeared just as Michael ran a red light>

Synonyms come out, materialize, show up, turn up

Related Words reappear, resurface; bulk, loom; arrive, come; dawn, debut; arise, break, break out, emanate, erupt, issue, rise, spring (up), surface; happen, occur

Near Antonyms depart, leave, retire, withdraw

Antonyms clear, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, fade, go (away), melt (away), vanish

2 to give the impression of being <it appears that he doesn't hear you> — see seem