in public

1. 1.

   in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly

   “she admitted publicly to being a communist”

   Synonymspubliclypublically

Questions about in public

What does in public mean?

in public means "in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly".

What is another word for in public?

Close synonyms include publicly, publically. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in public a common word?

in public is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.