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English Dictionary: obviously by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obviously
adv
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Obvious \Ob"vi*ous\, a. [L. obvius; ob (see {Ob-}) + via way.
      See {Voyage}.]
      1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]
  
                     To the evil turn My obvious breast.   --Milton.
  
      2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] [bd]Obvious to
            dispute.[b8] --Milton.
  
      3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived
            by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as,
            an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
  
                     Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the
                     heap, and obvious to the eye.            --Pope.
  
      Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See {Manifest}. --
               {Ob"vi*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob"vi*ous-ness}, n.
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