SEEMLY Synonyms: 256 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈsēm-lē

Definition of seemly

as in polite

following the established traditions of refined society and good taste it would not be seemly to use the memorial service as a forum for your political views

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as in beautiful

very pleasing to look at a young man of seemly appearance, robust health, and keen intelligence

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as in appropriately

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Recent Examples of seemly

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Another picture, taken outside, seemly showed the next step in the construction process. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026

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Adjective

Internal data as a moat is a polite way of locking yourself in.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
Louella’s prose was brief, polite, and devastatingly coded; her readers learned to interpret her tone as carefully as her text.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of polite

Adjective

Michael Kamen did this beautiful piece for the biggest battle of the movie, which was really low-key and very sad and drawn out, almost like slow motion, and put against the action.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
The beautiful thing concerned an eighty-seven-year-old problem, the Jacobian conjecture.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of beautiful

Adverb

The flashback structure doesn’t serve much of a purpose except to delay the audience’s complete endorsement of a character who, though appropriately cantankerous, is unambiguously a hero and nice guy.

— Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
Per People, Madonna—perhaps appropriately—chose to go as the Weeping Madonna statue, and Morris was dressed as a nun.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of appropriately

Adjective

Any function whose work can be pointed at a proper model of its underlying business, instead of at a general-purpose language model, is starting to compound the same way Anthropic’s engineering did a year ago.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Pentecostal parents Ruth and Marius were accused of domestic violence, with worldwide protests criticizing what dissenters called harsh and hasty steps taken by Norwegian social workers without proper evidence.

— Tomris Laffly, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of proper

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With shares well above their October lows, Cramer cautioned that further gains will depend on sustained execution rather than an attractive valuation alone.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
Incorporating open shelves in the kitchen helped maximize storage while enabling the designer to showcase more of the home’s attractive chink log siding.

— Sallie Lewis, Architectural Digest, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of attractive

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Presenting this new model at the first International Conference on Organoid Intelligence in the US this week, Australia's Cortical Labs presented its new system called, quite fittingly, HIVE.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2026
Cowboy Carter got its time in the halftime show spotlight as Beyoncé headlined the 2024 NFL Christmas Gameday halftime show, fittingly branded as the Beyoncé Bowl.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of fittingly

Adjective

And if at times the movie comes off as a bit decorous and stiff, the actors, particularly Edgar-Jones and Creed-Miles, do their best to keep the proceedings whirring.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
What was pell-mell and excited becomes thoughtful and decorous.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of decorous

Adjective

No-brainer options included handsome denims with a curving leg and neo-suiting playing on mixing rather than matching sets.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
Critic’s notebook As the Mamdani administration, and cities across America, grapple with affordable housing, two handsome complexes in Queens and Brooklyn show signs of progress.

— Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026

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