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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: {seemingly}, {ostensibly}, {on the face of it}] 2: 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") [syn: {obviously}, {evidently}, {manifestly}, {patently}, {plainly}, {plain}]
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