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
• ostensibly
• ostensively
• presumably
• putatively
• seemingly
• supposedly

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

Ultrafast-fashion retailer Shein is evidently taking steps to go public in the United Kingdom at a $64 billion valuation. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024

Ebrahim Raisi, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, died on May 19, along with the country’s foreign minister, a number of their bodyguards, and the pilot of their helicopter, which evidently crashed because of fog. —Jim Talent, National Review, 4 June 2024

But thanks to a Florida judge evidently in Trump’s back pocket, the blundering of a Georgia prosecutor and a pliant U.S. Supreme Court, none of the ex-president’s other criminal cases are likely to reach a jury in time for a verdict before Nov. 5. —Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024

Pashinyan’s government has evidently concluded that its future lies with the West. —Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024

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