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obviously

/ˈɑ(b).vi(.)əs.li/

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What does obviously mean?

adverb

  1. In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.
  2. Used as a filler word, or to introduce information even when not obvious.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɑ(b).vi(.)əs.li/

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We can only answer that conditions were obviously not propitious, but why or how are among the many problems of the future.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Vital MessageProject Gutenberg ebook #439
Men, especially lusty, personable fellows, such as footmen and other menials should be, are obviously more powerful and more expensive than women.
Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure ClassProject Gutenberg ebook #833
More book examples (3)
And this tribute to his might caresses him on the psychic plane as well as on the plane of the obviously physical.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270
In the field of what we now speak of as biological knowledge, primitive man had obviously the widest opportunity for practical observation.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
When writing this passage, Nietzsche was obviously thinking of the accusations which were levelled at the early Christians by their pagan contemporaries.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and NoneTranslated by Thomas CommonProject Gutenberg ebook #1998