Definitions for: Apparently


[adv] unmistakably; "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"; (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly' as in"he is plain stubborn")
[adv] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: evidently, manifestly, obviously, on the face of it, ostensibly, patently, plain, plainly, seemingly

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