obviously

English

Etymology

From obvious +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ(b).vi(.)əs.li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ(b).vi.əs.li/, (informal) /ˈɒ(b).vɪəs.li/, /ˈɒ(b).vjəs.li/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ(b).vi.ɘs.li/, (informal) /ˈɔv.jɘs.li/
• Hyphenation: ob‧vi‧ous‧ly

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Adverb

obviously (comparative more obviously, superlative most obviously)

1. In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.

   She was in floods of tears and obviously very upset.

   She'd obviously not gone to sleep yet: her eyes were bloodshot with sleepiness.

   The plane has obviously been delayed.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “Temu is gone! What I saw today completely convinced me!” the user wrote. “Local sellers, despite obviously buying some items in advance in a bulk, don’t have all these items I was interested in.”

2. (colloquial) Used as a filler word, or to introduce information even when not obvious.

   You weren't to know, but I've spoken to, obviously, Jim about this, and ...

Synonyms

• (in an obvious manner): apparently, clearly, evidently, manifestly, obvi; see also Thesaurus:obviously

Derived terms

• obvi
• obvs

Translations

in an obvious manner; clearly apparent

• Arabic: بُوضُوح (būḍūḥ)
• Armenian: ակնհայտ (aknhayt)
• Belarusian: відаво́чна (vidavóčna)
• Bulgarian: очеви́дно (bg) (očevídno)
• Catalan: òbviament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 明顯地 / 明显地 (zh) (míngxiǎn de), 顯然地 / 显然地 (zh) (xiǎnrán de)

• Czech: zjevně (cs), samozřejmě (cs)
• Danish: naturligvis
• Dutch: overduidelijk (nl), vanzelfsprekend (nl)
• Esperanto: evidente (eo)
• Finnish: ilmeisesti (fi), selvästi (fi), silminnähden
• French: clairement (fr), évidemment (fr)
• Galician: obviamente
• German: augenscheinlich (de) (elevated), offenbar (de), offenkundig (de), offensichtlich (de), sichtlich (de)
• Greek: προφανώς (el) (profanós)
• Hebrew: מִן הַסְּתָם (min hass'tám)
• Hungarian: nyilvánvalóan (hu)
• Icelandic: augljóslega (is)
• Italian: ovviamente (it)
• Japanese: 明らかに (ja) (あきらかに, akiraka ni), 当たり前 (ja) (Atarimae!)
• Korean: 확실히 (ko) (hwaksilhi), 분명히 (ko) (bunmyeonghi)
• Latin: quippe, ēvidenter
• Latvian: acīm redzami, acīmredzot
• Macedonian: очигледно (očigledno)
• Norwegian: selvsagt, åpenbart (no)

  Bokmål: åpenbar (no), åpenlys, tydeligvis (no)

• Old Prussian: akiwīstai
• Polish: oczywiście (pl)
• Portuguese: obviamente (pt)
• Romanian: evident (ro)
• Russian: очеви́дно (ru) (očevídno)
• Scottish Gaelic: a rèir coltais
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: очигледно

  Roman: očigledno (sh), očito (sh)

• Slovak: očividne, zjavne, samozrejme
• Slovene: očitno
• Spanish: obviamente (es), a ojos vistas
• Swedish: uppenbarligen (sv), tydligen (sv), uppenbart (sv)
• Tagalog: kanawa-nawang
• Turkish: bariz (tr), ortada (tr)
• Ukrainian: очеви́дно (očevýdno)
• Vietnamese: rõ ràng (vi), hiển nhiên (vi), rành rành (vi), sờ sờ (vi)