Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Openly; evidently to the senses or the intellect.
- Seemingly; in appearance, whether in reality or not; as far as one can judge: as, he is apparently well; only apparently friendly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Visibly.
- adverb Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
- adverb Seemingly; in appearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
Plainly ;clearly ;manifestly ;evidently . - adverb
Seemingly ; inappearance only. - adverb According to what the speaker has read or been told.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb from appearances alone
- adverb unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
Etymologies
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Examples
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By then young Zimmerman had changed his name apparently after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and had adopted some of Guthrie's persona.
Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011
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By then young Zimmerman had changed his name apparently after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and had adopted some of Guthrie's persona.
Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011
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By then young Zimmerman had changed his name apparently after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and had adopted some of Guthrie's persona.
Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011
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The PLA unit is popularly known as the Blue Army, a name apparently picked to distinguish it from the Communist Party's main fighting machine, nicknamed the Red Army.
Beijing Fires Back at Google James T. Areddy 2011
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In addition to amalgamating the words "made in", the term apparently translates phonetically into Chinese as "without a roof".
Exhibitions picks of the week amp; Skye Sherwin 2010
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You used the word apparently earlier, I said, as in apparently they were targeting my birth mother.
The Lovers John Connolly 2009
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(The title apparently refers to the weight of a human heart.)
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Strips is an acronym apparently coined by a bump-and-grind ecdysiast enthusiast at Treasury for “Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Strips is an acronym apparently coined by a bump-and-grind ecdysiast enthusiast at Treasury for “Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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From Hegel the term apparently entered the vocabulary of different systems and intellectual movements, although the ground had been prepared gradually for this absorption through the scattered ideas analyzed before.
VOLKSGEIST NATHAN ROTENSTREICH 1968
jiyoungchoi92 commented on the word apparently
He apparently looked scared of the dog because he didn't even got closer to it.
March 14, 2007
jeen0809 commented on the word apparently
He is apparently a gentleman.
March 14, 2007
petitfour commented on the word apparently
I use this word far too much.
"It's snowing outside."
"Apparently!"
April 4, 2007
kisholi commented on the word apparently
I use this quite a bit too petitfour... I caught it from watching that blonde chick in the BBC TV series Coupling. She uses it to good effect :)
April 5, 2007
mcbaine commented on the word apparently
Oh, I hear ya kisholi. Everytime I hear or use the word apparently now, it invokes that memory of Susan from Coupling saying it with that upward inflection.
November 12, 2007