AUDIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does audibly mean? 

• AUDIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb AUDIBLY has 1 sense:

1. in an audible manner

  Familiarity information: AUDIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an audible manner

Context example:

he spoke audibly

Antonym:

inaudibly (in an inaudible manner)

Pertainym:

audible (heard or perceptible by the ear)

 Context examples 

She went away weeping audibly, and he felt a pang of sorrow shoot through him at sight of her heavy body and uncouth gait.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But the man never turned, and, after stretching his arms above his head and yawning audibly, he retraced his steps to the forecastle scuttle and disappeared.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Lucy's heart beat a trifle more audibly to the stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Only think of Elizabeth's including everybody!" whispered Mary very audibly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But Meg looked straight up in her husband's eyes, and said, "I will!" with such tender trust in her own face and voice that her mother's heart rejoiced and Aunt March sniffed audibly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I fancied, indeed, that he sometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said he was only troubled with a cough.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He played a sweet mournful air which I perceived drew tears from the eyes of his amiable companion, of which the old man took no notice, until she sobbed audibly; he then pronounced a few sounds, and the fair creature, leaving her work, knelt at his feet.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She did not think he was quite so hardened as his wife, though growing very like her;—she spoke some of her feelings, by observing audibly to her partner, Knightley has taken pity on poor little Miss Smith!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)