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

• 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

Investor confidence is evidently reflected in the stock’s elevated valuation—but with greater height comes a steeper potential fall. —Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

While no March firings at the park had been confirmed, staff reductions at other National Park Service sites evidently played a role in the shorter hours here. —Arkansas Online, 30 June 2025

But this knock-out game between two European clubs on a Saturday afternoon was evidently a harder sell than some of FIFA’s excitable hype suggests — hard to sell at FIFA’s prices, at least. —Liam Twomey, New York Times, 28 June 2025

Unsurprisingly, a good number of them are crime or horror films, where the wordplay on time and death evidently proved irresistible to the writers. —David Crystal june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 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