evident
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
evident
adj 1: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment;
"the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who
sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest
disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning
plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in
plain view" [syn: {apparent}, {evident}, {manifest},
{patent}, {plain}, {unmistakable}]
2: capable of being seen or noticed; "a discernible change in
attitude"; "a clearly evident erasure in the manuscript"; "an
observable change in behavior" [syn: {discernible},
{evident}, {observable}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Evident \Ev"i*dent\, a. [F. ['e]vinent, l. evidens, -entis; e
out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See {Vision}.]
Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding,
and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of
a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can
not always be made evident.
[1913 Webster]
Your honor and your goodness is so evident. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
And in our faces evident the signs
Of foul concupiscence. --Milton.
Syn: Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent;
conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See
{Manifest}.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "evident":
apparent, beholdable, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal,
clear-cut, comprehensible, conspicuous, crystal-clear, defined,
definite, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, explicit,
exposed, exposed to view, express, glaring, hanging out,
in evidence, in focus, in full view, in plain sight, in view,
incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest,
naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open to view,
open-and-shut, outcropping, palpable, patent, perceivable,
perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, prominent,
pronounced, recognizable, revealed, seeable, self-evident,
self-explaining, self-explanatory, showing, staring,
straightforward, tangible, to be seen, unambiguous, unclouded,
unconcealed, understandable, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable,
viewable, visible, visual, well-defined, well-marked,
well-pronounced, well-resolved, witnessable
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