indeed — English Dictionary

Adverb

1. Synonym of actually or truly.

   Usage

   • modal
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Indeed, he made several misplays.

   Yes, I do indeed look very similar to you.

   More examples (5)

   Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

   I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time that he wore kilts. But I see that I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

   She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed, she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.

   With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

   [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria,[…].

2. In fact.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • after the adjective modified

   Examples

   As a soccer player, he is terrible indeed.

Interjection

1. Indicates agreement with another speaker's previous statement.

   Synonyms

   absolutelyfor realforsoothindubitablysure thingtrue thatfactsfaxtrufaxthat's right

   Examples

   "I am a great runner." "Indeed!"

2. Indicates doubt or disagreement with another speaker's previous statement.

   Usage

   • with interrogative intonation

   Examples

   "I am a great runner." "Indeed?"

Adverb

1. in truth (often tends to intensify)

   Synonyms

   so

   Examples

   they said the car would break down and indeed it did

   it is very cold indeed

   More examples (3)

   was indeed grateful

   indeed, the rain may still come

   he did so do it!

2. (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.

   Examples

   Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!