visibly

English

Etymology

From visible +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪz.ə.bli/, /ˈvɪzɪbli/

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Adverb

visibly (comparative more visibly, superlative most visibly)

1. In a visible manner; openly.

   He was visibly upset while reading the news live on air about the school shooting.

   • 2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase:

     Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• hiddenly
• invisibly
• latently

Translations

in a visible manner

• Bulgarian: ви́димо (bg) (vídimo), очевидно (bg) (očevidno)
• Catalan: visiblement, a la vista
• Dutch: zichtbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: videble
• French: visiblement (fr)
• Galician: visiblemente (gl)
• German: sichtbar (de)
• Hungarian: láthatóan (hu), szemlátomást (hu)
• Italian: visibilmente (it)
• Japanese: はっきり (ja) (hakkiri), 目に見えて (ja) (me ni miete), 明らかに (ja) (akiraka ni), 瞭然と (ja) (ryōzen to)
• Latvian: redzams, redzami
• Portuguese: visivelmente (pt)
• Russian: ви́димо (ru) (vídimo), я́вно (ru) (jávno), заме́тно (ru) (zamétno)
• Sanskrit: प्रकटम् (sa) (prakaṭam)
• Spanish: visiblemente (es), a ojos vistas