manifestly

English

Etymology

manifest +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

manifestly (comparative more manifestly, superlative most manifestly)

1. In a manifest manner; obviously.
   • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 162:

     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.

Synonyms

• clearly, evidently, plainly; see also Thesaurus:obviously