MANIFESTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manifestly mean? 

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

1. unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANIFESTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')

Synonyms:

apparently; evidently; manifestly; obviously; patently; plain; plainly

Context example:

he is plain stubborn

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Pertainym:

manifest (clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment)

 Context examples 

I think he recognised my thought in my eyes, for he said very quietly, manifestly for the ears of the attendant:—Ah, a sad accident!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He manifestly chuckled over it for some time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Both men were manifestly out of place, and why such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of things that passes understanding.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She tried to school herself to the belief, and, manifestly for her husband's sake, tried to seem content.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A few slight indications of a rather petted and capricious manner, which I observed in the Beauty, were manifestly considered, by Traddles and his wife, as her birthright and natural endowment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That our institutions of government and law were plainly owing to our gross defects in reason, and by consequence in virtue; because reason alone is sufficient to govern a rational creature; which was, therefore, a character we had no pretence to challenge, even from the account I had given of my own people; although he manifestly perceived, that, in order to favour them, I had concealed many particulars, and often said the thing which was not.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It had been fighting, and manifestly had had a savage opponent, for its throat was torn away, and its belly was slit open as if with a savage claw.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)