seem

seem [ sim ] verb intransitive never progressive ***

1. ) to appear to be something or appear to have a particular quality:

John seems nice.

seem (to be) someone/something: Susan seems a very sensible person.

seem happy/genuine/relaxed etc. to someone: He seems happy enough to me.

seem like: Going out for lunch seemed like a good idea.

seem to do something: She seemed to want to take very good care of herself.

2. ) used when you want to say something in a more careful or polite and less direct way:

it seems/would seem (that): It seems there's going to be a slight delay.

seem to have done something: I seem to have forgotten your name.

can't seem to do something: We can't seem to get this computer to work.

it seems

used for saying that something appears to exist or be true:

it seems to do something: It seems to rain all the time here.

it seems (that): Standing there in the house, it seemed that he had never been away.

it seems to someone (that): It seems to me this is his most important novel.

it seems like: It seems like their marriage is over.

it seems as if/though: It seems as if everybody else knew except me.

so it seems (=it appears that this is true): He's not coming with us, then? So it seems.