evidently

adverb

ev·i·dent·ly ˈe-və-dənt-lē

-ə-ˌdent-

especially for sense 2 often

ˌev-ə-ˈdent-

Synonyms of evidently

: in an evident manner : clearly, obviously

… any style … so evidently bad or second-rate …—T. S. Eliot

: on the basis of available evidence

He was born … evidently in Texas …—Robert Coughlan

Examples of evidently in a Sentence

Evidently you and I have different feelings on this issue. “We seem to have different feelings on this issue.” “Evidently!”

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His predictions mostly involved preaching to the AI evangelist choir, and his fervor for the tech evidently led him to throw caution to the winds of Wall Street. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026 It was evidently lost amid the flood of congratulatory messages that arrived on campus that day, and Calhoun didn’t remember it. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026 Thoroughly unimpressed by her suburban idyll, and evidently unmoved by her responsibilities as wife and mother, Denise labors in her basement on a novel whose protagonist wishes to forsake her family for a life in New York. — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026 For now, the live album provides the first official document of a night that was evidently too strange — and potentially too cinematic — to leave in the vault. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evidently

Word History

First Known Use

1532, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of evidently was in 1532

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evidently

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ev·i·dent·ly ˈev-əd-ənt-lē -ə-ˌdent-

ˌev-ə-ˈdent-lē

: in an evident manner : obviously

a document evidently forged

evidently

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