PALPABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palpably mean? 

• PALPABLY (adverb)
  The adverb PALPABLY has 1 sense:

1. so as to be palpable

  Familiarity information: PALPABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALPABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So as to be palpable

Context example:

she was palpably nervous

Pertainym:

palpable (capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt)

 Context examples 

Whatever advantages she may have enjoyed with the Campbells are so palpably at an end!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This threat was so palpably disregarded, that though within five minutes afterwards the three boys all burst into the room together and sat down, Fanny could not consider it as a proof of anything more than their being for the time thoroughly fagged, which their hot faces and panting breaths seemed to prove, especially as they were still kicking each other's shins, and hallooing out at sudden starts immediately under their father's eye.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She thought it would be an excellent match; and only too palpably desirable, natural, and probable, for her to have much merit in planning it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When Miss Smiths and Mr. Eltons get acquainted—they do indeed—and really it is strange; it is out of the common course that what is so evidently, so palpably desirable—what courts the pre-arrangement of other people, should so immediately shape itself into the proper form.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)