Hypertext Webster Gateway: "obviously"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Obvious \Ob"vi*ous\, a. [L. obvius; ob (see {Ob-}) + via way.
See {Voyage}.]
1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]
To the evil turn My obvious breast. --Milton.
2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] ``Obvious to
dispute.'' --Milton.
3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived
by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as,
an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the
heap, and obvious to the eye. --Pope.
Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See {Manifest}. --
{Ob"vi*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob"vi*ous-ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
obviously
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") [syn: {evidently}, {manifestly}, {patently},
{apparently}, {plainly}, {plain}]
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