evidently

adverb

ev·​i·​dent·​ly ˈe-və-dənt-lē 

-ə-ˌdent-

especially for sense 2 often

ˌev-ə-ˈdent- 

1

: in an evident manner : clearly, obviously

… any style … so evidently bad or second-rate …

—T. S. Eliot

2

: on the basis of available evidence

He was born … evidently in Texas …

—Robert Coughlan

Synonyms of evidently

• apparently
• seemingly
• supposedly
• ostensibly
• probably
• presumably

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!”

Recent Examples on the Web

Toward the end of the game, the ESPN sportscaster Kirk Herbstreit, evidently having run out of things to say, put his headset on his golden retriever, an emotional support dog named Peter. —Paige Williams, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025

Nick had co-written the script for the film, and Rob had directed the picture, with the two evidently searching for some kind of reconciliation. —Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Dec. 2025

This evidently remained an inconvenient truth for respondents. —Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025

The only tie in which they were evidently outclassed was the 5-1 humbling by Benfica, who scored three times inside 20 second-half minutes and could have had more. —Chris Waugh, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1532, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

evidently

adverb

ev·​i·​dent·​ly ˈev-əd-ənt-lē  -ə-ˌdent- 

ˌev-ə-ˈdent-lē

: in an evident manner : obviously

a document evidently forged