Exactly
Obviously
Obviously adverb - Unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly').
Exactly and obviously are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exactly" instead an adverb "Obviously".
Nearby Words: obvious, obviousness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- precisely and exactly
- precisely and obviously
- truly and exactly
- truly and obviously
- directly and exactly
- directly and obviously
- absolutely and exactly
- absolutely and obviously
- positively and exactly
- positively and obviously
- definitely and exactly
- definitely and obviously
- indeed and exactly
- indeed and obviously
Both words in one sentence
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Inferno isn't exactly lying about her widowhood, but since she's a part of Max's dream, that means that her dead husband never actually existed in the first place, and her real-world self is Max's wife, and he's quite obviously very alive.
Source: Video Game / Sanitarium -
It's obviously meant to look almost exactly like the original Battlestar Galactica... well, if it were green, and crewed by Scary Dogmatic Aliens who are the antagonists rather than the heroes.
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Creepy Circus Music Conspicuous CG: The two-dimensional Disney characters don't exactly mesh well with the obviously-CGI backgrounds.
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