actual

Adjective

• being or existing at the present moment
  • the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West
    

• existing in act or fact
  • rocks and trees...the actual world
    
  • actual heroism
    
  • the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced
    

• being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
  • her actual motive
    
  • a literal solitude like a desert- G.K.Chesterton
    
  • a genuine dilemma
    

• taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated
  • we saw the actual wedding on television
    
  • filmed the actual beating
    

• presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
  • the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different
    
  • actual and imagined conditions
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  factual , genuine , literal , real , existent
• Antonyms: 
  potential , possible