apparently
Apparently is an adverb meaning "evidently" or "obviously." After his sixth hot dog, you might say to your friend, "Well! Apparently somebody was hungry!"
While apparently can mean "plainly" — like, duh — it can also mean "seemingly," which is almost "evidently" or "obviously," but not quite. There's a certain amount of guessing involved, based on appearances. The park ranger who shows up in the morning to examine the path of destruction through your campsite might say that it was "apparently the work of a hungry bear," not because he's totally sure, but because it definitely looks like something the bears around here would do.
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from appearances alone“irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land”
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synonyms:
on the face of it, ostensibly, seemingly
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unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
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A boy named Salva struggles to survive after being separated from his family in war-torn Sudan. A girl named Nya spends hours each day collecting water for her parents and sister. Their lives eventually intersect in this novel based on a true story.
In this novel, a boy imprisoned in a concentration camp and the son of a Nazi commandant develop an unlikely friendship.
In this graphic novel, an African-American seventh grader struggles to fit in at his new private school.