Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Apparently"
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) 1.7 (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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