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[ UK /ɐpˈæɹənt/ ]
[ US /əˈpɛɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
    it is plain that he is no reactionary
    evident hostility
    the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields
    in plain view
    a palpable lie
    a palpable lie
    manifest disapproval
    made his meaning plain
    patent advantages
  2. appearing as such but not necessarily so
    the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies
    for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent
    his seeming honesty
    the ostensible truth of their theories

How To Use apparent In A Sentence

  • One was apparently faulty and the other did not have a battery.
  • Apparently, the discovery that Landis is 10,000 years old further proves the fact that he is using performance enhancing steroids. creeky belly Doping ID - The Panda's Thumb
  • Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
  • Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds.
  • Apparently some divers end up having to buy extra suitcases to carry all the goodies home.
  • I was a bit depressed by our apparent lack of progress.
  • I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes ‘seem so unnatural’ (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and ‘an indiscriminate attack on civilians’. As I Please
  • -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
  • Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
  • For no apparently good reason, she told me that she hates the word "coochie" just as much as she hates the word cunt, maybe more. Drbigbeef Diary Entry
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