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visibly

UK/ˈvɪz.ə.bli/US/ˈvɪz.ə.bli/
adverbB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,391 of 15,258leans written

Visibly means in a way anybody could see. The feeling did not stay inside.

It attaches to states rather than actions, giving visibly shaken, visibly upset, visibly relieved, and each means the emotion showed on the outside. That is its whole job in reporting, since a witness described as visibly distressed is being described from outside rather than interpreted. It also works plainly, so something visibly worn has obvious wear. The adjective visible and the noun visibility belong with it.

Definitions of visibly

  1. 1adverbvisiblyIn a way that can plainly be seen.B2+

    “He was visibly relieved when the call ended.”

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *weyd-

  2. Latin

    visibilis — that may be seen

  3. Old French

    visible

  4. Middle English

    visible

  5. English

    visible

  6. English, today

    visibly

From visible + -ly. visible comes from Middle English visible, from Old French visible, from Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision. Displaced native ġesewenlīċ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 1 of A Man Called Ove.

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visibly in the wild

  • However, they affect visibly only about two thirds of adult cats.

    Nepetalactone

  • The highway is not visibly assigned with a route number; however, it is assigned Trunk 33 by the provincial transportation department as an unsigned highway.

    Bedford Bypass

  • A wood scribe is a tool for marking wood by scratching the surface visibly.

    Wood scribe

  • With an apparent magnitude of 5.7, it is faintly visibly to the naked eye under good observing conditions.

    HD 128333

  • The linear encodings of languages accepted by finite nested word automata gives the class of visibly pushdown languages.

    Nested word

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the visible family

visible

visibly — used about once every 20,553 pages · #13,391 · point at the bar for the others

  • invisible
  • visibility