Adjacent Words

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APPA'RENTLY, adv.
1. Openly; evidently; as, the goodness of God is apparently manifest in his works of providence.
2. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor" [syn: apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it]
2: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 1566 it seems apparent <the window had apparently been forced open> <apparently, we're supposed to wait here>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Apparently Ap*par"ent*ly, adv. 1. Visibly. [Obs.] --Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. --Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use apparently to indicate that the information you are giving is something that you have heard, but you are not certain that it is true. Oil prices fell this week to their lowest level in fourteen months, apparently because of over-production. ADV: ADV with cl/group, ADV before v [vagueness] 2. You use apparently to refer to something that seems to be true, although you are not sure whether it is or not. The recent deterioration has been caused by an apparently endless recession... ADV: ADV with cl/group, ADV before v

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-par'-ent-li (mar'eh, the Revised Version (British and American) "manifestly," signifying in the only place so translated (Nu 12:8) "in the form of seeing" (Keil and Delitzsch), i.e. "an appearance," "a similitude," a manifestation of the invisible God in human form): This is the Old Testament manner of Divine revelation "in the person and form of the angel of Yahweh": "In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself, and talked with Moses" (2 Esdras 14:3). God talked with Moses openly, without figure, in a direct manner revealing to him His will in the clear distinctness of a spiritual communication: "With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he behold."

M. O. Evans

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. 1. Evidently, obviously, clearly, manifestly, plainly, indubitably, unmistakably. 2. Seemingly, ostensibly, quasi, on appearance, at the first blush, in semblance, in show.

Moby Thesaurus

artificially, as it seems, at first sight, clearly, conspicuously, definitely, discernibly, distinctly, erroneously, evidently, explicitly, expressly, exteriorly, externally, factitiously, falsely, glaringly, in name only, manifestly, markedly, nominally, noticeably, observably, obviously, officially, on the outside, on the surface, openly, ostensibly, out, outside, outwardly, outwards, palpably, patently, perceivably, perceptibly, plainly, plausibly, prima facie, professedly, prominently, pronouncedly, publically, recognizably, seeably, seemingly, spuriously, staringly, starkly, superficially, synthetically, to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, truthlessly, unconcealedly, undisguisedly, ungenuinely, unmistakably, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, visibly, with clarity, without