Meaning & Definition of Apparently in English

1. From appearances alone

• "Irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"

• "The child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"

• "Had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-thomas hardy

• "On the face of it the problem seems minor"

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

• "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"

• "She has apparently been living here for some time"

• "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"

• "You are plainly wrong"

• "He is plain stubborn"