Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Obviously; clearly.
- adv. According to the evidence available: The stranger approached the microphone, evidently intending to speak.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Clearly; obviously; plainly; in a manner to be seen and understood; so as to convince the mind; certainly; manifestly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
Etymologies
- From evident + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While the title evidently refers to a looming planet called Melancholia, expect to see most of the action taking place on earth, as the film explores the “psychology view of a disaster.””
“In the following stories the reporter began with the title evidently because it was so strikingly unusual and also because it was the title of a strikingly unusual speech by an unusual man.”
“While the title evidently refers to a looming planet called Melancholia, expect to see most of the action taking place on earth, as the film explores the "psychology view of a disaster.”
“The term evidently comes from the meal being eaten at the "high" (main) table, rather than the smaller table common in living rooms.”
“This old man called whisky "muhgundy smash," the term evidently derived from some idea of the word "burgundy" combined with the word "mash.”
“This term evidently implies, not only that special honor is due to the recipients of such fees, but besides that the services they render are too noble to be measured in money values, and therefore the money offered is rather in the form of a tribute to a benefactor than of pecuniary compensation for a definite amount of service rendered.”
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“This term evidently belongs to the period of the English possession, when a _Frenchman_ was another word for an enemy.”
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“Bowyer explains that along with the Steel City, Baltimore and Philadelphia in the 1990s caught hold of a wave especially esteemed by that group of Democrats who now rally under the banner of "progressivism," a term evidently preferable to liberalism.”
“People who use this term evidently have no real knowledge of what the Nazis did.”
“People who use this term evidently have no real knowledge of what the Nazis did”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘evidently’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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lunaversol's list
meander
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 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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Boosting Words
Boosters in academic language, from Ken Hyland in Appendix 3 of Disciplinary Discourses (2000; Harlow, Essex:
Pearson)we know, we think, actually, always, apparent, beyond doubt, certain that, certainly, certainty, clearly, conclusively, decidedly and 30 more...
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steveely's Words
mellifluous, kibosh, zaftig, evidently, ubiquitous, confluence, miscreant, exonerate, ostensible, phantasmagoria, homogenous, hegemony and 30 more...
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Mogeltron
Miscellaneous idiolect that could be used to assemble a Whichbe simulator.
point of skew, character as fate, doubt for doubt, story of my life, cumulative effect, default settings, reasonable, or tr..., take care, relative proportion, is that so, cognitive bias, and whatnot and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for evidently.
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