Usually means: Existing in fact; not theoretical.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word actual:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. actual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. actual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. actual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. actual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. actual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Actual, actual: Wordnik
  7. actual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. actual: Wiktionary
  9. actual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. actual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. actual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. actual: Dictionary.com
  13. actual: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. actual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Actual (band), The Actual (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Actual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. actual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. actual: Rhymezone
  19. actual, actual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. actual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. actual: Free Dictionary
  22. actual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. actual: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. actual: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. actual: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Actual: art glossary

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. actual: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. actual: Legal dictionary
  5. Actual: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. actual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Actual: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (chiefly theology) relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical
adjective:  Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact.
adjective:  (now rare) in action at the time being; now existing; current.
adjective:  Used as intensifier to emphasise a following noun; exact, specific, very.
noun:  an actual, real one; notably:
noun:  (finance) something actually received; real receipts, as distinct from estimated ones.
noun:  (military) a radio callsign modifier that specifies the commanding officer of the unit or asset denoted by the remainder of the callsign and not the officer's assistant or other designee.
noun:  (uncountable) Reality, usually with the definite article.

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