demonstrably

American  

[dih-mon-struh-blee] / dɪˈmɒn strə bli /

adverb

1. in a way that can be demonstrated or proved.

   Privatization may be good for the government contractors who profit, but it's demonstrably less efficient in sectors like health care.

2. very evidently; obviously.

   Earlier in the game, the wide receiver was demonstrably agitated about not getting the ball enough.

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Other Word Forms

• nondemonstrably
  adverb
• undemonstrably
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of demonstrably

demonstrab(le) ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Demonstrably affectionate and mutually supportive, the couple have wrapped themselves in a tender cocoon of warmth, desire and creative labor.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

Demonstrably it has some power, it is even clear that that power is great, but in the same sense that occultists deny that death is, so may true lovers deny that the entity exists.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

Demonstrably, therefore, God is good and just in the very highest degree in which those qualities can be conceived by man.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

"Here and there a touch Taught me, betimes, the artifice of things— That all about, external to myself, Was meant to be suspected,—not revealed Demonstrably a cheat—but half seen through."

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

Demonstrably, too, since the universe is the work of His hands, He must be possessed of power which, if not necessarily unbounded, is at least as boundless as the universe.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas