APPARENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apparently mean? 

• APPARENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb APPARENTLY has 2 senses:

1. from appearances alone

2. unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')

  Familiarity information: APPARENTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPARENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From appearances alone

Synonyms:

apparently; on the face of it; ostensibly; seemingly

Context example:

on the face of it the problem seems minor

Pertainym:

apparent (appearing as such but not necessarily so)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')

Synonyms:

apparently; evidently; manifestly; obviously; patently; plain; plainly

Context example:

he is plain stubborn

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Pertainym:

apparent (clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment)

 Context examples 

Apparently, the universe is playing tricks on us by giving us one angry aspect (expressed above—Mars opposition Uranus) and a lovely four-star aspect (Venus conjunct Jupiter).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Fear responses returned in animals if the training began more than 6 hours after re-exposure, when the memory had apparently already solidified.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

One of them brushed against him and apparently for the first time noticed him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Apparently, most came about when people were simply distracted by their cell phones.

(Mobile phone could cause physical pain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ceres' bright spot can now be seen to have a companion of lesser brightness, but apparently in the same basin.

('Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion, NASA)

Pollen, the same airborne material that wreaks misery during certain seasons in the form of drippy noses and itchy eyes, apparently can have an influence on weather.

(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They have apparently been made rather uniform through some repetitive processing in the interstellar medium, the researchers said.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

WASP-18b is the first known example of an orbiting planet that has apparently caused its star, which is roughly the mass of our sun, to display traits of an older star.

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)

Apparently it took billions of years longer for dark matter to condense as well, so its dominating effect is only seen on the rotation velocities of galaxy discs today.

(Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe, ESO)

Over the years, she started noticing that uninvited guests had apparently been serving themselves at the bamboo buffet—and they were eating like horses…literally.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)