apparently
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈpæɹ.ənt.liː/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈpæɹ.ənt.li/, enPR: ə-părʹənt-lē
Audio (US, Mary–marry–merry merger): (file)
Adverb
editapparently (comparative more apparently, superlative most apparently)
- (archaic) Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, act 4, scene 1:
- If he should scorn me so apparently.
- 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.
- Seemingly; in appearance.
- Synonyms: ostensibly, seemingly; see also Thesaurus:ostensibly
- A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
- 2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
- The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
- According to what the speaker has read or heard.
- Synonyms: allegedly, reportedly
- Apparently you are quite a good dancer.
- (often sarcastic) According to what one can deduce.
- 2016, “Message Received”, in Steven Universe:
- Peridot: I can tell you with certainty that there are things on this planet worth protecting!
Yellow Diamond: What do you know about the Earth?!
Peridot: Apparently more than you, you clod!
Derived terms
editTranslations
edit(archaic) plainly
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seemingly
according to what the speaker has read or been told
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References
edit- “apparently”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “apparently”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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