Etymology
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apparent + -ly
Pronunciation
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apparently (comparative more apparently, superlative most apparently)
- (archaic) Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
- Synonyms: obviously, plainly, clearly, evidently, visibly; see also Thesaurus:obviously
1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.
- Seemingly; in appearance.
- Synonyms: ostensibly, seemingly; see also Thesaurus:ostensibly
A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197:The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
- According to what the speaker has read or heard.
- Synonyms: allegedly, reportedly
Apparently you are quite a good dancer.
2006, Lois Lewandowski, The Fatal Heir: A Gillian Jones Mystery, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 169:" […] Apparently they are going to contact the adoption agency and see if they can locate that child. […] "
Derived terms
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Translations
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(archaic) plainly
- Arabic: ظَاهِرًا (ẓāhiran), عَلَى مَا يَبْدُو (ʕalā mā yabdū)
- Hijazi Arabic: الظّاهر (aẓ-ẓāhir).
- Basque: bide (eu)
- Bengali: সাধারণভাবে (śadharonbhabe)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 明明 (zh) (míngmíng), 顯然/显然 (zh) (xiǎnrán), 明顯/明显 (zh) (míngxiǎn)
- Czech: zjevně (cs)
- Danish: åbenbart
- Dutch: blijkbaar (nl), duidelijk (nl)
- Finnish: ilmeisesti (fi)
- French: apparemment (fr), évidemment (fr)
- Galician: evidentemente
- German: offensichtlich (de), offenbar (de)
- Hebrew: בבירור (beverúr)
- Hungarian: nyilvánvalóan (hu), láthatóan (hu), szemlátomást (hu)
- Italian: chiaramente (it), evidentemente (it)
- Japanese: 明らかに (ja) (あきらかに, akiraka ni), 一見 (ja) (いっけん, ikken), 明白に (めいはくに, meihaku ni), 思しい (おぼしい, oboshii)
- Latvian: acīm redzami, acīmredzot
- Polish: najwyraźniej
- Portuguese: claramente (pt), evidentemente (pt)
- Russian: очеви́дно (ru) (očevídno)
- Scottish Gaelic: a rèir coltais
- Slovak: zjavne, očividne, evidentne
- Spanish: evidentemente (es), obviamente (es), por lo visto
- Swedish: uppenbarligen (sv)
- Turkish: anlaşılan (tr)
- Ukrainian: очеви́дно (očevýdno)
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seemingly
- Arabic: ظَاهِرًا (ẓāhiran)
- Azerbaijani: görünür
- Belarusian: відаво́чна (vidavóčna), віда́ць (vidácʹ), пэ́ўна (péŭna)
- Bulgarian: наглед (bg) (nagled)
- Catalan: aparentment (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 看來/看来 (zh) (kànlai), 表面上看來/表面上看来 (biǎomiàn shang kànlai), 似乎 (zh) (sìhū), 貌似 (zh) (màosì)
- Czech: patrně (cs), zřejmě (cs)
- Danish: tilsyneladende, åbenbart, øjensynlig
- Dutch: schijnbaar (nl), ogenschijnlijk (nl)
- Esperanto: ŝajne (eo), verŝajne (eo)
- Finnish: näennäisesti (fi), näennäisen (fi)
- French: apparemment (fr), en apparence (fr)
- Galician: aparentemente
- German: scheinbar (de), anscheinend (de), augenscheinlich (de), dem Anschein nach
- Hebrew: כנראה (ka'nir'e)
- Hungarian: látszólag (hu)
- Italian: apparentemente (it)
- Japanese: (based on hearsay) (どうやら)…らしい ((dōyara) … rashii))
- Kazakh: тәрізді (tärızdı)
- Latvian: redzams, redzami
- Lisu: ꓠꓸ ꓠꓸꓼ (nɑ́ nɑ́ɑ̱̀)
- Macedonian: навидум (navidum)
- Navajo: hanii
- Norwegian: tilsynelatende
- Polish: widocznie (pl), widać (pl), pozornie (pl), pewnie (pl), zapewne (pl)
- Portuguese: aparentemente (pt)
- Russian: по-ви́димому (ru) (po-vídimomu), каза́лось бы (kazálosʹ by), вида́ть (ru) (vidátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: a rèir coltais
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: изгледа да, привидно
- Roman: izgleda da, prividno (sh)
- Slovak: zrejme, zdanlivo
- Spanish: aparentemente (es), al parecer
- Swedish: tydligen (sv)
- Tok Pisin: ating
- Turkish: görünüşe göre, besbelli (tr), görünüşe bakılırsa
- Ukrainian: мабу́ть (mabútʹ), пе́вно (pévno), либо́нь (uk) (lybónʹ), вида́ти (vydáty)
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according to what the speaker has read or been told
- Belarusian: па чутках (pa čutkax), кажуць (kažucʹ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 據說/据说 (zh) (jùshuō)
- Danish: efter sigende (da)
- Dutch: blijkbaar (nl), kennelijk (nl), naar het schijnt
- Finnish: ilmeisesti (fi), näköjään
- French: apparemment (fr)
- Galician: seica, disque (gl)
- Georgian: თურმე (turme)
- German: angeblich (de), vorgeblich (de), anscheinend (de)
- Hungarian: állítólag (hu)
- Irish: is cosúil go
- Italian: sembra che
- Japanese: らしい (ja) (rashii), そう (ja) (sō)
- Latvian: šķietami
- Polish: podobno (pl), ponoć (pl), rzekomo (pl)
- Portuguese: supostamente (pt)
- Russian: по слухам (ru) (po sluxam), говорят (ru) (govorjat)
- Scottish Gaelic: a rèir coltais
- Slovak: údajne
- Spanish: al parecer, según parece, aparentemente (es), por lo visto, presuntamente, supuestamente (es), dizque (es)
- Tagalog: mandin
- Ukrainian: мабуть (mabutʹ)
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