VISIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visibly mean? 

• VISIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb VISIBLY has 2 senses:

1. in a visible manner

2. so as to be visible

  Familiarity information: VISIBLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a visible manner

Context example:

he was visibly upset

Antonym:

invisibly (without being seen)

Pertainym:

visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)

Sense 2

Meaning:

So as to be visible

Context example:

the sign was visibly displayed

Pertainym:

visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)

 Context examples 

This was a new way of looking at it, and Miller was visibly impressed as he debated it in his mind.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The bridegroom's hand trembled visibly, and no one heard his replies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Joe Dawson thought visibly for a moment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At the end of another day or two, Marianne growing visibly stronger every twelve hours, Mrs. Dashwood, urged equally by her own and her daughter's wishes, began to talk of removing to Barton.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Visibly abnormal tissue on a magnetic resonance image (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) that does not enhance with contrast and is not edema.

(Non-Contrast Enhancing Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The drug could kill the parasite in infected individuals before symptoms present, but could also be used when patients are visibly ill, and help block further mosquito transmission.

(Antimalarial candidate holds promise as a single dose, SciDev.Net)

A coded value specifying a group of animals presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters.

(Animal Breed Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying a group of animals presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characteristics.

(Breed Code, NCI Thesaurus)

What chiefly surprised Edmund was, that Crawford's sister, the friend and companion who had been so much to her, should not be more visibly regretted.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have never seen any human being who appeared to be in such a pitiable fright, for his teeth were visibly chattering, and he was shaking in every limb.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)