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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
obviously
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clearly/obviously embarrassed (=in a way that is obvious to other people)
▪ He was clearly embarrassed about what had happened.
obviously/clearly/visibly relieved
▪ She was obviously relieved to have escaped.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
important
▪ The kind of firing set-up used is obviously important in determining the firing atmosphere achieved.
▪ If you are considering going on secondment during term time it is obviously important to minimise disruption to the teaching programme.
▪ This is most obviously important where there is a direct link between the degree subject and occupation.
▪ It is obviously important that everyone understands exactly how the law applies and your solicitor will be able to explain the situation.
▪ It is obviously important to check all other members of a household and make sure that any other infested people are treated.
▪ It is obviously important to know whether the car has been stolen or whether the driver has a criminal record.
▪ It is obviously important to ensure that there is no asset stripping.
▪ The findings from these research projects are obviously important for ward learning and teaching.
■ VERB
enjoy
▪ They were both very good to her, amusing her and obviously enjoying her company.
▪ The man was obviously enjoying himself, but the precise nature of that pleasure eluded Quinn.
▪ It was great to see so many climbers just having a go and obviously enjoying themselves.
▪ Here is a show where the young people on stage obviously enjoy themselves.
▪ After all, a dog or a cat will come for the rub and tickle it so obviously enjoys.
▪ Nervous at first, by the time the Shah reached the end of the line, he was obviously enjoying himself.
▪ How many pupils obviously enjoyed it?
▪ As I say, next to Paul and me were these two ladies obviously enjoying every mouthful of their meal.
feel
▪ He obviously felt really guilty about that.
▪ And many of those truckers obviously felt it was their right to deliver goods to points far beyond the border town.
▪ He obviously feels guilty about this.
▪ And he walked on, obviously feeling much better.
▪ The geologists sense that some funding agencies' obviously feel that ophiolite work is a waste of time.
▪ You are obviously feeling down or doubting your abilities.
need
▪ The company obviously needed a new image to express their growing importance internationally.
▪ Cesarean Section Cesarean delivery is obviously needed in certain situations and has saved many lives.
▪ Some capital projects obviously need current resources to run them.
▪ We obviously need some protection against patronage hiring and firing.
▪ We obviously need to pin the term down more firmly.
▪ One of Murphy's Laws states that if the statistics don't prove your point then you obviously need more statistics!
▪ Such children obviously need general assessment, not merely an examination of their ears and hearing.
▪ And to do this at all one obviously needs a general account of the relation between them.
think
▪ He obviously thought her friends would either be dead, or in the hands of the Gestapo.
▪ A railway conductor appeared, saw the uniform and the gun, and obviously thought it wiser not to intervene and disappeared.
▪ She obviously thought he was barmy.
▪ But their parents had obviously thought it was a suitable area.
▪ He obviously thinks you were one.
▪ He obviously thought he was being funny, but he wasn't.
▪ He obviously thought she was a man-hungry piranha, and really who could blame him?
▪ But you obviously think the others did.
want
▪ Exhibitions are not just about selling work, though you will obviously want to seel as much as possible.
▪ Society obviously wants something more from families than it is currently getting.
▪ That was strange but my main concern now was how to get to her, since she obviously wanted me.
▪ She very obviously wanted to be left alone.
▪ He obviously wants to see the Christians in the capital city of the empire.
▪ Mr. Nelson Because Governments obviously want to timetable their Bills and get their business through as soon as possible.
▪ The acquirer will obviously want warranties and indemnities to be given by people with financial strength.
▪ We obviously want to avoid asset stripping and the selling on of assets at a large profit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He obviously likes you.
▪ The barber was obviously drunk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.
▪ It obviously takes it out of you, being working class.
▪ Or that the only purpose of it is for procreation, which is obviously disproved in the above passage.
▪ She's obviously prepared to put up with your terms.
▪ The winner is obviously the player with the intact conker.
▪ This is very obviously the approach of some one writing exclusively and specifically for the young.
▪ We obviously need some protection against patronage hiring and firing.
▪ While obviously busy and gearing up for a big night, the servers here were ever mindful of their dining patrons.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obviously

Obvious \Ob"vi*ous\, a. [L. obvius; ob (see Ob-) + via way. See Voyage.]

  1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]

    To the evil turn My obvious breast.
    --Milton.

  2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] ``Obvious to dispute.''
    --Milton.

  3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.

    Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye.
    --Pope.

    Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest. [1913 Webster] -- Ob"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob"vi*ous-ness, n.

Wiktionary
obviously

adv. In a obvious manner; clearly apparent.

WordNet
obviously

adv. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain]

Wikipedia
Obviously

"Obviously" is a song by English pop rock band McFly. It was released as the second single from their debut studio album, Room on the 3rd Floor. The single itself features a cover version of Beatles single " Help!", as well as the band's first recorded interview - part one of which can be found on CD2, with part two appearing on a limited edition 7" picture disc. The single was the band's second number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for one week. It also got to number 14 in Ireland.

Usage examples of "obviously".

It goes on just about every personnel form he fills out, lots of people in the company have access to it -human resources, payroll, and, obviously, the outside travel agency.

The Takemotos were obviously acquiring money, and they were looking at land.

Here it obviously is not the mere touch, but the effect produced by the caustic, which induces the tip to transmit some influence to the adjoining part, causing it to bend away.

Mari Ado asked with the blunt lack of manners she obviously thought went with her offworld name.

Bay had been marrying Jonas Harper for the silks and silver his money could buy her, she could be so obviously happy with the few simple things he provided in this adobe house.

And let no one laugh at this poor adolescent who comes up with advice on matrimonial matters in which obviously he cannot be an expert.

Obviously, therefore, there must have been some explanation for the absence of tanged adzes from Western Polynesia other than that random voyages did not occur.

Now was obviously the time to fuse all those scattered scraps of aeronautical information into real understanding.

During the last week or two Ward had obviously changed much, abandoning his attempts at affability and speaking only in hoarse but oddly repellent whispers on the few occasions that he ventured forth.

To which of the stages of language does this belong--the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist?

He looked a bit banged up, and his clothes were still a bit sodden, obviously from having been tossed into the river by Aileron of the Harpers Bizarre.

The spiky handwriting on the airmail envelope from London was obviously hers, and Pug tore it open with more eagerness than he wanted to feel.

Even at the distance of a bow shot Seregil could see something amiss in the lines of the figure, some profound wrongness of proportion that disturbed him more than the fact that Alec obviously could not see it himself.

Obviously convinced that Seregil had gone completely mad at last, Alec fought him for it and they both toppled over the side.

Obviously I was doing all right now and I could start enjoying myself, again.