apparently

[uh-pair-uhnt-lee] / əˈpɛər ənt li /

ADVERB

seemingly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

allegedly ostensibly possibly probably supposedly

WEAK

as if as though at a glance at first sight in all likelihood intuitively it appears that it seems that most likely on the face of it outwardly plausibly professedly reasonably reputably speciously superficially tangibly to all appearances

Antonyms

STRONGEST

improbably unlikely

WEAK

dubiously equivocally questionably uncertain

ADVERB

obviously

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clearly evidently officially plainly

STRONG

manifestly patently

WEAK

conspicuously expressly in plain sight indubitably openly overtly palpably perceptibly transparently unmistakably

Antonyms

STRONGEST

vaguely

WEAK

dubiously equivocally improbably questionably uncertain unlikely

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I was troubled, not by what Holly and Jessica had apparently said, but what they hadn't said.

From BBC

Proxy military groups stayed out of the June 2025 war, apparently with Tehran’s assent.

From Barron's

In Doha, Qatar's defence ministry said it had intercepted several missiles apparently targeting the al-Udeid air base, the largest American base in the region.

From BBC

"I stay in the background/hidden, just make the arrangements," he apparently wrote to Epstein in 2011, in one of those emails – and eight years later that's still how he worked.

From BBC

apparently

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