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say it: PAT-uhnt-lee
patently is an adverb meaning "unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')". It is pronounced /ˈpætəntli/ — PAT-uhnt-lee. It carries one recorded sense.
unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
“the answer is obviously wrong”
“she was in bed and evidently in great pain”
“he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list”
“it is all patently nonsense”
“she has apparently been living here for some time”
“I thought he owned the property, but apparently not”
“You are plainly wrong”
“he is plain stubborn”
colloquialism
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for patently come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.