0 to give the effect of being; to be judged to be: --
"Was a decision made?" "It seems not/so."
[ after so ] "There's no reply - they've all gone home." "So it seems."
There seems to have been a mistake - my name isn't on the list.
formal It would seem (that) no action need be taken.
It seems to me (that) (= I think that) he isn't the right person for the job.
[ + (that) ] It seems (that) she can't come.
[ + to infinitive ] I seem to know more about him than anyone else.
Things are seldom as/how/what they seem.
I suspect his claims are not all they seem - he tends to exaggerate.
He's 16, but he often seems (to be) younger.
1 to appear to be: --
One patient was refused because the fact that she already had a 4-month baby did not by itself seem a sufficiently strong indication.
It seems that the international observers overestimated their role in reducing the violence.
The attraction of what might at first blush seem a redundant translation was that nature could speak in a clear and undistorted voice.
It protected it by excluding from its realm the cases that seemed to escape multiple concordant testimony.
Singing seemed to influence their psychological well-being and mental states significantly.
Nevertheless, it seems that there is a network of different psychological factors in play, which seem to be interconnected and influencing one another.
The "successful" governess, it seems, manages her pupils into "successful" betrothals - just like the marriage plot novel.
These pronominals that indicate mid-level formality seem to include some element of closer psychological distance.
