Evidently and Really

Evidently

Evidently adverb - To all outward appearances.

Really and evidently are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Really" instead an adverb "Evidently".

Really

Really adverb - In actual fact.

Evidently and really are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Evidently" instead an adverb "Really".

Both words in one sentence

  • It doesn't really come up in the original radio series, though since Arthur evidently lived in a quite rural part of the UK in the 1970s one can draw certain inferences, but the books describe Ford as white -somewhat unnaturally so even- with wiry ginger hair.
  • Film / Noah Fantasy Metals: Zohar, a strange, not-really-explained, evidently non-renewable mineral that the descendants of Cain mined up pretty much entirely.
    Source: Film / Noah
  • Stab the Scorpion After it's off, the Decepticon shoots - a zombie that evidently didn't need the signal and had gotten really close to the Autobot
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