VISIBLY Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

visibly

adverb

Definition of visibly

as in outwardly

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Recent Examples of visibly Over the next 12 to 18 months, the wearable BP market will visibly break into three lanes. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026 Nothing feels more ‘90s to the casual beauty historian than a brown-leaning lipstick with visibly darker liner. — Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026 The ban covers Muslim headscarves, Jewish kippahs, oversized Christian crosses and other clothing that visibly signals a religious affiliation. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 Its five-peptide complex targets visible density and anchorage, while Cécred’s patent-pending Bioactive Keratin Ferment is designed to visibly strengthen hair. — Camila Quimper, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026 Fashion and athletics have long shared a vocabulary of performance and precision—and nowhere more visibly than in Italy, where houses from Prada to Armani have repeatedly blurred the line between sporting uniform and high style. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026 Seated next to rapper Ice Spice and friend Ashley Avignone, Swift was visibly confused by the crowd’s reaction. — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2026 But, fighting Parkinson’s disease, his body was visibly unsteady on that July night. — Nicole Bennett, AJC.com, 18 Sep. 2026 To do this transparently, visibly and with empathy, the trick is to give people the floor to talk out loud. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for visibly

Adverb

Scientists have found that a distant world has a real rebellious streak, outwardly defying its red dwarf host star.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 Sep. 2026
At once a world-class, supervillain-busting secret agent and a prototypically insecure adolescent, Kim Possible (Christy Carlson Romano) outwardly resembled a great number of female cartoon characters from the early aughts.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of outwardly

Adverb

Mid-round, golfers head to the Halfway House for burger dogs and fish tacos, and the Links Margarita has apparently achieved something close to cult status among regulars.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
The Soyuz rocket failure was apparently caused by a fire at the base of the booster about a minute before liftoff, according to the Encyclopedia Astronautica.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of apparently

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Because Luann’s microphone has seemingly been surgically attached to her body, her toast goes on for over 35 minutes.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
After the event was disrupted by an armed intruder, the Administration and the association scheduled a July do-over, where Trump delivered a rambling speech indulging seemingly every tangent that sprang to mind, but his contempt remained apparent.

— Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of seemingly

Adverb

Breaking the law evidently isn’t one of the mayoral achievements City Hall is seeking to amplify.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
With 53% of US 18-to-29s favorable towards socialism but only 45% favorable towards capitalism, Gen Z evidently feel let down by capitalism.

— Luba Kassova, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of evidently

Adverb

That changes what organizations hire, develop or access externally.

— Prithvi Singh Shergill, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
The combined company will have an independent trustee, who reviews records and operations externally before reporting back to the states attorney general.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of externally

Adverb

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

Adverb

The Taliban’s return to power was swift, though preventing it had ostensibly been the entire point of the decades-long occupation, the bombs, the hundreds of thousands of lives lost.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
In the south, an array of militias and armed groups arose over the years, ostensibly to back the government against the rebels.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

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