seemed
SEEMD/siːmd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of seem.
The plan seemed reasonable until we examined the costs more closely.
She had seemed calm during the meeting, but her hands were shaking.
Note
The past of a linking verb: it joins a subject to how that subject appeared. What follows is an adjective or noun phrase, not an object, as in the plan seemed reasonable. The same spelling serves as the participle, which appears only after have (she had seemed calm), because a linking verb has no passive. The obsolete seem meaning "befit" once shared this form too.
seemed is a form of seem
seem, verb: To give the outward impression of being something; to appear to be a certain way. Full entry
- Spelling
- seem → seemed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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