Obvious vs Probably - What's the difference?
obvious | probably |
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.
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As an adjective obvious
is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.As an adverb probably is
in all likelihood.obvious
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.}}
Synonyms
* See also .Antonyms
* unobvious * non-obvious * subtleDerived terms
* obviously * obviousnessSee also
* plain * clear * evident * manifestExternal links
* *probably
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Alternative forms
* (colloquial)Adverb
(en adverb)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
