SEEMINGLY Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

seemingly

adverb

ˈsē-miŋ-lē

Definition of seemingly

as in apparently

to all outward appearances a seemingly contented baby who was fast asleep in his crib

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Recent Examples of seemingly But on the piano, laser-beamed into his songcraft, he’s quietly electrified, at seemingly at peace as his tenorous vocal glissando and nimble fingerwork on the piano produce shiveringly tender folk ballads that echo Harry Nilsson and Van Morrison. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026 Juxtapositions of seemingly unlike topics (plants and gender, feral dogs and nuclear weapons) give way to Venn diagrams, with Johnson dwelling in their overlapping middles. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 And Michaels didn't merely skip the full story but seemingly minimized the allegations of assault. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 David’s transformation scrambles gender, desire, power, and the seemingly straightforward relationship between a person and the face everyone else recognizes as theirs. — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seemingly

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There wasn’t a penalty on the play, but the NFL apparently saw something amiss.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
Commissioner Josh Davidson countered that Pourharton’s figures apparently didn’t include income from his commission on Valero gas sales or on lottery tickets.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of apparently

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Given Polymarket’s popularity, its prices can feed back into the events its bets supposedly only predict.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Rogers was also aware that Lee, now supposedly an economics professor at a Chinese university, had an unusually intense interest in him.

— Eamon Javers, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of supposedly

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Pike is in critical condition and receiving life-saving medical care after being injected with two ostensibly fatal doses of pentobarbital, her attorneys said Thursday.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
The kettle ostensibly includes a spout through which people are released as molecules are split from their collective bonds.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of ostensibly

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Of course, there are also age-old hustles so evidently dishonest that there was a time when their exponents risked being hung or shot.

— Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
He was called up by Zidane to this squad but remains uncapped at senior level and is evidently behind Jacquet in the coach’s thoughts, having been regarded as the outstanding young defender on the market two years ago.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of evidently

Adverb

Brower and Simone learned that pigeons were a common source of food for people thousands of years ago and used the sun, and probably the earth's magnetic field, for navigation.

— KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
Jack Wolf Westwood Lincoln Riley talks a big game about excelling in the Big Ten, but in losing badly to Oregon and its backup quarterback, USC probably couldn’t win the Pac-12 this year.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of probably

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These messages, presumably written by students, are arguably reductive in their analysis.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2026
Her former research partner has absconded with her life’s work, presumably to put toward greedy human means of Manifest Destiny.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

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