Apparently

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apparently \Ap*par"ent*ly\, adv.
     1. Visibly. [Obs.] --Hobbes.
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     2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
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              If he should scorn me so apparently.  --Shak.
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     3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently
        friendly, yet malicious in heart.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 (`plain' is often used informally for
          `plainly'); "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"; "he is plain
          stubborn" [syn: {obviously}, {evidently}, {manifestly}, {patently},
           {plainly}, {plain}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "apparently":
     artificially, as it seems, at first sight, clearly, conspicuously,
     definitely, discernibly, distinctly, erroneously, evidently,
     explicitly, expressly, exteriorly, externally, factitiously,
     falsely, glaringly, in name only, manifestly, markedly, nominally,
     noticeably, observably, obviously, officially, on the outside,
     on the surface, openly, ostensibly, out, outside, outwardly,
     outwards, palpably, patently, perceivably, perceptibly, plainly,
     plausibly, prima facie, professedly, prominently, pronouncedly,
     publically, recognizably, seeably, seemingly, spuriously,
     staringly, starkly, superficially, synthetically,
     to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, truthlessly,
     unconcealedly, undisguisedly, ungenuinely, unmistakably,
     unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, visibly, with clarity,
     without