obviously
Academic Word List, sublist 4.
About 40.14 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.
She was in floods of tears and obviously very upset.
- adverb 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 ...
Similar words
manifestly patently evidently apparently plainly plain obvious clearly self-evidently openly
Often followed by
the a not be in had it this been an
Word family
obvious
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