The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tangible \Tan"gi*ble\, a. [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F. tangible. See Tangent.]
Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
--Bacon.-
Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. ``A tangible blunder.''
--Byron.Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others.
--Southey. [1913 Webster] -- Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- Tan"gi*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a tangible manner.
WordNet
adv. in a tangible manner; "virtue is tangibly rewarded"
Usage examples of "tangibly".
I ran with unnatural speed from the shadowed, haunted streets of witch-cursed Arkham into the October night, down the Aylesbury Road, into the lane and the pasture gate, where for one brief instant, while sirens blew behind me, I saw the Tuttle house through the orchard outlined in a hellish purple glow, beautiful but unearthly and tangibly evil.
Prew stepped back out of the dayroom, feeling very much a stranger, and stood looking at the pooltable in the half light of the alcove, feeling tangibly the new forces here that had begun already to work on him.
Across the river gigantic violet-grey masses of cloud were piling up until they became tangibly dense.
The thought of the nation for to-morrow was tangibly represented only by that hut twenty feet square, with its few nourishing acres, most primitively furnished, a teacher of no training in the art of teaching, a few tons of coal in a shed, a box of crayons, and perhaps a map.
Davisson and Germer made the wave-like nature of electrons tangibly evident.
She found refuge in the kids' room, on the edge of Cammie's bed, in the furry maternal softness of Mister Mac the talking bear, the sunny unambiguous cheer of the furnishings, an all-enveloping baking-bread aroma of small children, the consolation of domestic detail, neglected crannies where grace dwelt, as crisis proved time and time again, the moment when Garrett first struck her as tangibly present as the baby blue rocking chair in which she sang Bas to sleep on nights of fear for both mother and son.
The light was harsh enough to make him squint and the gravity was tangibly heavier than Earth standard.
Brace intensified it, imagining as he'd been taught, that the emotion was something visible which he was manipulating tangibly, as visible and tangible as water falling over a specific area, drenching everything with its cascade.
Sometimes he shilled for the management by doing just that, demonstrating tangibly that the house could be beaten, drawing in many more clients.