different between looks vs seem

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

looks

1. plural of look

Noun

looks pl (plural only)

1. One's appearance or attractiveness.

   His charm and good looks accounted for much of his popularity in the polls.

   Looks can be deceiving.

Translations

Verb

looks

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of look

Anagrams

• Sokol, kolos

French

Noun

looks m

1. plural of look

Spanish

Noun

looks m pl

1. plural of look

English

Alternative forms

• seme (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *s?mijan? (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English s?man (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English s?m (“agreement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m
• Homophones: seam, seme

Verb

seem (third-person singular simple present seems, present participle seeming, simple past and past participle seemed)

1. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?

     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.
2. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• meseems
• seeming
• seemingly
• seemly
• seemlihood
• seemliness

Translations

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé, emes, mese, seme, semé, smee

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch s?m, from Proto-Germanic *saimaz.

Noun

sêem m

1. honey

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zeem
• West Flemish: zêem

Further reading

• “seem”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seem”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN