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OBVIOUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')
Example:
he is plain stubborn
Synonyms:
apparently; evidently; manifestly; obviously; patently; plain; plainly
Classified under:
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Pertainym:
obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)
Context examples:
“Perhaps you can account also for the bullet which has so obviously struck the edge of the window?”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage: and it seemed to me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed indifference, attached undue importance to whatever revelations had been made her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had risen from his position to his hands and knees, and though his leg obviously hurt him pretty sharply when he moved—for I could hear him stifle a groan—yet it was at a good, rattling rate that he trailed himself across the deck.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Obviously, those supernovas were not close enough to exterminate life on Earth—but they were close enough to wrap our solar system in a bubble of hot gas that persists millions of years later.
(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)
That kind of stuff coursing through your blood vessels doesn't sound good - obviously - but this finding might take us closer to understanding some of the issues that may strike our cardiovascular system with age.
(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Obviously by advertisement through a newspaper.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, then, it is obviously not the interest of these men to kill him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was obviously embarrassed for an instant, while the Inspector raised his eyebrows, and Alec Cunningham burst into a laugh.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The same curious accident happened to him in the rooms of the Indian—a silent, little, hook-nosed fellow, who eyed us askance, and was obviously glad when Holmes’s architectural studies had come to an end.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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