unobviously

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adverb

In a way that is not obvious.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adverbunobviously (comparative more unobviously, superlative most unobviously)

comparative more unobviously · superlative most unobviously

  1. In a way that is not obvious.

    I took a firm grip of Josella's hand, and we started to worm our way along as unobviously as possible.

    1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 80
    1 more example

    As I have already indicated, however, there is reason to think that at least some of the principles that Kant takes to be synthetic a priori are instead unobviously analytic, and so I shall assume that if Kant shows that a principle associated with one of his categories is unobviously analytic, that too shows that the category is objectively valid.

    2004, Georges Dicker, Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction, page 49

Origin

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