evident
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- "evident hostility"
- capable of being seen or noticed
- "a clearly evident erasure in the manuscript"
Adj
- Obviously true by simple observation.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.
Synonyms
apparent, arrant, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bell, clear as day, clear cut, crystal clear, cut and dried, decided, discernible, elucidate, evident, eyely, glaring, intuitive, manifest, notable, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, palpable, patent, plain, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as Salisbury, plain as the nose on one's face, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, straightforward, undissembled, undoubted, unmistakable
Scrabble Score: 11
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