apparently

Adverb

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
  • the answer is obviously wrong
    
  • she was in bed and evidently in great pain
    
  • he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list
    
  • it is all patently nonsense
    
  • she has apparently been living here for some time
    
  • I thought he owned the property, but apparently not
    
  • You are plainly wrong
    
  • he is plain stubborn
    

• from appearances alone
  • irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land
    
  • the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned
    
  • had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it-Thomas Hardy
    
  • on the face of it the problem seems minor
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  obviously , evidently , manifestly , patently , plainly , plain , seemingly , ostensibly , on the face of it