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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Apparently \Ap*par"ent*ly\, adv.
   1. Visibly. [Obs.] --Hobbes.
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   2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
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            If he should scorn me so apparently.  --Shak.
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   3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently
      friendly, yet malicious in heart.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

apparently
    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]