Obviously vs Obvious - What's the difference?
obviously | obvious |
In a obvious manner; clearly apparent.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
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Obvious is a derived term of obviously.
As an adverb obviously
is in a obvious manner; clearly apparent.As an adjective obvious is
easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.obviously
English
Adverb
(en adverb)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
Synonyms
* (in an obvious manner) apparently, clearly, evidently, manifestlyobvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}