Textual thesaurus for "actually"

(adv) in reality

used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly

you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out; she actually spoke Latin; they thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets; people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous

(adv) really

in actual fact

to be nominally but not actually independent; no one actually saw the shark; large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt