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.
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And in our faces evident the signs
Of foul concupiscence. --Milton.
Syn: Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent;
conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See
Manifest.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
evident
adj 1: clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "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, manifest, patent, plain]
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, observable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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