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UK
/ˈɒbvɪəsli/
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[ US /ˈɑbviəsɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɑbviəsɫi/ ]
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 obviously In A Sentence
- Obviously, I'm not Catholic, but I think it takes a lot of effrontery for the media to try to dictate the doctrine for Catholics.
- She was obviously a little startled at this idea.
- There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
- The authors of the second paper admit that “other variables … influence the binding avidity (preference), such as type of SA (sialic acid of the receptor site) and glycosylation and sialylation of the hemagglutinin close to the receptor binding site. †These factors all vary obviously and there are other variables in the equation as well including the status of specific areas of the immune system. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
- I do not pretend to know what combination of threats and cajolements they offered, but they obviously succeeded.
- Sounds similar to the sauce for mutter panner (obviously without the peas or paneer) ... Chipotle ketchup changes everything | Homesick Texan
- She's obviously much more interested in the process than in the finished work.
- Obviously, Roosevelt was feeling his way and assuring his nomination in 1904.
- Of course what is small will inevitably vary greatly according to the circumstances and to say that a curtilage is a small area is obviously not to provide any precise test of identification.
- Nature was obviously having fun here, chiselling the rocks.
