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UK
/ˈɛvɪdəntli/
]
[ US /ˈɛvədəntɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛvədəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
You are plainly wrong
he is plain stubborn
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
I thought he owned the property, but apparently not
she has apparently been living here for some time
How To Use evidently In A Sentence
- They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in. Times, Sunday Times
- Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
- And evidently this time apart allowed the two to approach their partnership rejuvenated and ready for some serious woodshedding, as they reportedly recorded dozens of tracks before pruning down to these relatively lean 14 songs.
- The questions were evidently unexpected to the slow-witted spokesman, who instantly found himself tongue-tied.
- Judging from these movies, Mark Wilkinson is evidently some kind of caecilian-hunting guru genius: with just two lazy, shallow strokes of a spade, he was able to discover two caecilians in their native habitat. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- It is the realm of _psychical life_; and, still more decidedly and more evidently, the _realm of mind_. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
- Evidently, for many influentials in world music, the art is a question of conquering and ruling the earth, no less.
- Before it stood a pipkin, in which something was evidently kept warm. Two on a Tower
- This enumeration is evidently designed to convey an impression of universality [Baumgarten]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- This was Gerard's account of the Cucumber, while of the Cucumber Pompion, which was evidently our Vegetable Marrow, and of which he has described and figured the variety which we now call the Custard Marrow, he says, "it maketh a man apt and ready to fall into the disease called the colericke passion, and of some the felonie. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare