unobviously en · ADV
Etymology
From unobvious + -ly.
Meanings
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In a way that is not obvious.
I took a firm grip of Josella's hand, and we started to worm our way along as unobviously as possible.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 80:As I have already indicated, however, there is reason to think that at least some of the principles that Kant takes to be synthetic a priori are instead unobviously analytic, and so I shall assume that if Kant shows that a principle associated with one of his categories is unobviously analytic, that too shows that the category is objectively valid.
2004, Georges Dicker, Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction, page 49:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more unobviously | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most unobviously | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |