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overtly

overtly adverb: in an overt manner; publicly; openly.

Adverb

overtly (comparative more overtly, superlative most overtly)

  1. In an overt manner; publicly; openly.
    • Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 190
    • The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.2022 October 3, Helen Lewis, “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2023

overtly meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

overtly in Urdu

ظاہراً

overtly in Malayalam

പരസ്യമായി, സപ്രകാശം, ഒളിവില്ലാതെ

Examples of overtly in a sentence

  • I would urge you to resist anything overtly 'baby-ish' for your changing bag.
  • Thus the opportunivore can forage either overtly or covertly, by asking up front or diving out back.
  • Sara considered writing to tell him about it, but discarded the idea as overtly fangirly.

All 19 example sentences with overtly

Antonyms of overtly

Forms of overtly

comparativemore overtly
superlativemost overtly

Origin of overtly

From overt + -ly.

Questions about overtly

What does overtly mean?
Overtly means in an overt manner; publicly; openly.
What is overtly in Urdu?
Overtly in Urdu is ظاہراً. See Overtly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is overtly?
Overtly is an adverb.

Words near overtly in the dictionary

  1. overtitrated
  2. overtitrates
  3. overtitrating
  4. overtitration
  5. overtitrations
  6. overtly
  7. overtness
  8. overtoasted
  9. overtoil
  10. overtoiled
  11. overtoiling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overtly (page history and authors); overtly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overtly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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