verb
Meaning 1
To make real; to realize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
actualize
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
To become actual or real.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To realize one's full potential.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: reflexive
Examples
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:actualize.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
represent or describe realistically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: actualise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: represent
verb
Meaning 5
make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- our ideas must be substantiated into actions
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: realize, realise, actualise, substantiate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: make, create
Narrower terms: incarnate, express
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English actual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English actualize From actual + -ize.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: toteuttaa — make real
- Finnish: aktualisoida — make real
- French: réaliser — make real
- German: realisieren — make real
- German: verwirklichen — make real
- Hebrew: מִמֵּשׁ (mimésh) — make real
- Ido: aktualigar — make real
- Serbo-Croatian: aktualizirati — make real
- Slovene: aktualizȋrati — make real
- Spanish: realizar — make real
- Swedish: förverkliga — make real
- Finnish: toteutua — become real
- Finnish: aktualisoitua — become real
- German: sich verwirklichen — become real
- Ido: aktualeskar — become real
- Swedish: förverkliga — become real
Real reading context