• IPA: /siːm/

seem (seems, present participle seeming; past and past participle seemed)

1. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

   He seems to be ill.   Her eyes seem blue.   It seems like it is going to rain later.

   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː

     He is so fair, without lease, he seems full well to sit on this.

   • 1813 (14^thc.), Dante Alighieri, The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.

     He, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:

     They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. […].

2. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

• French: sembler, paraître, avoir l'air
• German: scheinen, dünken
• Italian: sembrare, parere, apparire
• Portuguese: parecer
• Russian: каза́ться
• Spanish: parecer