Meanings
comparative more manifestly · superlative most manifestly
- In a manifest manner; obviously.
Folk lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC2 more examples
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162The digital revolution has also changed society itself. A child growing up in 2020 lives in a manifestly different world than the child who grew up in 1980, just as that child grew up in a very different America than the child who was raised in 1940.
2022, Jon M. Garon, Parenting for the Digital Generation, page 1
Synonyms & antonyms
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adverbunmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Hungarian nyilvánvalóan
- nyilvánvalóanin a manifest manner
Latin ēvidenter
- ēvidenterin a manifest manner
Portuguese manifestamente
- manifestamentein a manifest manner
Ukrainian явно, очевидно
- явно (javno)in a manifest manner
- очевидно (očevydno)in a manifest manner
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manifestly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manifestly
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