Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adv. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
- adv. Seemingly; in appearance only.
- adv. According to what the speaker has read or been told.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adv. from appearances alone
- adv. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
Etymologies
- From apparent + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“By then young Zimmerman had changed his name apparently after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and had adopted some of Guthrie's persona.”
“In addition to amalgamating the words "made in", the term apparently translates phonetically into Chinese as "without a roof".”
“You used the word apparently earlier, I said, as in apparently they were targeting my birth mother.”
“(The title apparently refers to the weight of a human heart.)”
“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.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“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.”
“By then, of course, she may be immune to embarrassment, which is presumably the point of saddling your offspring with a name apparently based on the skin colour of a person on a faulty intravenous drip.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Programs of social insurance have become "entitlements," a word apparently meant to signify not a collectively provided and cherished basis for family-income security, but a sinister threat to our national well-being.”
“The expression apparently created by Victor Hugo and used by Churchill after WWII, means the United States of Europe-U.S.E. Geithner discussing the Euro with Bernanke ahead of European trip”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apparently’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Individual design
consider, individuation, entirely, feasible, narrowness, sought out, instance, heterogeneous, apparently, bias, intermediary
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Favorites
ostensibly, surreptitiously, seriously, apparently, vociferous, guitar, asphalt, glee, glitter, fascinating, asynchronous, cunt and 128 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Individual Design
apparently, individuation, entirely, feasible, moderate, narrowness, advance, biases
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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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1
hypomania, hypomanic, complementary, deem, problematic, volatile, mercurial, unaccompanied, counterpart, irritability, hyperthymia, violent and 130 more...
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lukemomma's Words
sure, apparently, fathom, shindig, appalling, ridiculous, utterly, monstrosity, harsh, freak, cavernous, cockeyed and 1 more...
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Dxpert's Words
typically, analysis, theorem, definitely, label, absolutely, bored, awkward, unfortunately, drastically, appointment, stopped and 36 more...
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Lesson 1
abroad, abrupt, acceptable, acclaim, actually, apparently, primitive, metabolism, insulate, assemble, adverse, advice and 8 more...
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Inguriddo's list
linger, smooth, devour, excruciating, totally, bogus, wreck, labyrinth, complexity, reserved, vanish, disappear and 33 more...
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Words to learn
omit, in all likelihood, unlikely, utterly, every now and then, once in a while, deceptive, show off, reckon, ever since, after all, consequence and 52 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for apparently.
mcbaine 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. Nov 11, 2007
kisholi 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 :) Apr 5, 2007
petitfour I use this word far too much.
"It's snowing outside."
"Apparently!" Apr 4, 2007
jeen0809 He is apparently a gentleman. Mar 14, 2007
jiyoungchoi92 He apparently looked scared of the dog because he didn't even got closer to it. Mar 13, 2007