palpable
She was palpably relieved to hear the news.
The situation has become palpably more dangerous in the past 24 hours.
The atmosphere was palpably different at this meeting.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Apparent and obvious
(from) under your noseidiom
apparent
be (as) plain as the nose on your faceidiom
be (right) under your noseidiom
be etched somewhereidiom
be writ largeidiom
flagrantly
foregone conclusion
glaring
glaringly
I need hardly do somethingidiom
obtrude
overtly
palpable
parallax
patently
perceivable
squeaky
stand/stick out a mileidiom
writ

Examples of palpably

palpably
Neither man wavered from his uncompromising position, and both went to the grave claiming that the other was palpably mistaken.
And from many parts of the continent, political scientists and journalists have reported that chiefs are palpably exercising considerable, and in some cases increasing, powers.
In focal dystonias, pick muscles which are tender, hypertrophied, visibly or palpably contracting, or are clearly responsible for the involuntary posture or spasm.
These palpably marginalised youths eschew rather than embrace or embody socio-historical rupture.
The desire to believe that we start with the body, create culture, and end up with a politics to organize it looks palpably untrue.
In all of its triviality, sitting there, slowly filling up, it is palpably, drearily ' real '.
In the process, three of the classic triggers have been tripped, and others have palpably moved.
The live presence of the ingrates and, in particular, the lamenting soul, renders the love object palpably present.
The effect was to amplify palpably the voice of agrarian discontent within both the national government and major party counsels.
Nature never relinquished its authority as last court of appeal, but its authority was now of a palpably different kind.
The book's insights could help problematise the unhelpful liberalism/fundamentalism and choice/coercion paradigms that palpably frame this topical issue.
The girl twin was born active and taking breaths but clearly had a small chest, great difficulty breathing, and palpably enlarged kidneys.
The courageous display of open, personal feeling in this shattering movement left the audience both devastated and palpably moved.
He was palpably too ill to really carry out his duty.
The tensions involved in this exchange across discipline boundaries are spelled out in the introductory account of the conference and become palpably manifest in some of the contributions.
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