clearly

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If any incident can clearly demonstrate why, this is it.

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Quick take

without doubt or question; "they were clearly lost"; "history has clearly shown the folly of that policy"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of clearly gathered in one view.

adverb

without doubt or question; "they were clearly lost"; "history has clearly shown the folly of that policy"

adverb

in an intelligible manner; "the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly"

adverb

clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment; "it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself in his situation"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for clearly.

adverb

without doubt or question; "they were clearly lost"; "history has clearly shown the folly of that policy"

adverb

in an intelligible manner; "the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly"

adverb

clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment; "it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself in his situation"

adverb

in an easily perceptible manner; "could be seen clearly under the microscope"; "She cried loud and clear"

Example sentences

If any incident can clearly demonstrate why, this is it.

He clearly craves validation and doesn't hesitate to dole it out to himself.

We should all be outraged by this because it clearly doesn't represent the interest of the people.

I don't know what the ultimate solution to this problem is, but now is clearly the time for Airbnb to get moving on it...]

Paypal loses more on a $1,000,000-in-transactions account which goes bad than a $1,000-in-transactions account which goes bad, clearly.

If a company does something clearly distasteful and harmful to others, staying quiet and voting with your feet is not a good idea.

They don't want to challenge the government, they don't want to question it, not even when it's clearly violating it's own most important rules - the rules that, presumably, we've been fighting to promote these last 200 years.

What annoys me is all the forms clearly state the IRS has also been sent this information; I'm literally filling out forms in a slow, error-prone way just so the IRS can run a simple == check to make sure I entered them in correctly.

Proper noun examples

Clearly it is not a cost-based market like gypsum, or there would not exist sites selling photos with royalties attached, or photos costing hundreds of dollars --- which clearly those sites do exist.