Definition of palpably in English:
palpably
adverb ˈpalpəbliˈpælpəbli
1Noticeably or clearly.
the audience became palpably uncomfortable
Example sentencesExamples
- The citizens were palpably bad-tempered, caught up in the festive frenzy of acquisition.
- Even in full costume, he was palpably nervous.
- There's something palpably sinister about the film's subtext.
- The rest of the vignerons are waiting their turn in the spotlight, with palpably increasing dread.
- The tones were earthen, the lighting dim, the personas palpably real.
- The sense of claustrophobic conflict builds palpably.
- The mood at the studios today is palpably buoyant.
- Despite several pounds of snow wedged down my pants, the thrill that everyone had said I'd feel was palpably awakened.
- Memorials were events for the living that forged contact with the absent dead, who were made palpably present.
- The potential for abuse is extreme and palpably Orwellian.
2In a way that is able to be touched or felt.
the lymph nodes were palpably enlarged
Example sentencesExamples
- Some 30 per cent of patients present with palpably enlarged nodes containing metastases.
- Sufferers often have palpably sore muscles in the neck, face, jaw, temple, and shoulders.
- Usually, the affected organs are palpably enlarged.
- Healthy volunteers with palpably normal muscle tissue were recruited for this study.
- The eye was palpably swelling shut, and her whole vision was queerly violet.
- A selective excision of palpably enlarged axillary lymph nodes was also performed at her request.
- The most common identifiable cause of male subfertility is a condition of palpably distended veins of the spermatic cord.
- Signs may include a palpably enlarged stomach or an enlarged liver.
- This convergence of cells results in a palpably swollen feeling and appearance.
- His remaining testis was palpably normal.