obvious
AdjectiveUS[ahb-vee-uhs]/ˈɑbviəs/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- easily perceived and understood“obvious errors”Opposite unobviousSimilar apparent, axiomatic, writ large, open-and-shut, demonstrable, self-explanatory, transparent, frankRelates to obviousness, noticeabilitySee also overt, open
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Translations
Adjective easily discovered or understood
- Spanish
- obvio
- French
- évident
- German
- offensichtlich
- Italian
- ovvio
- Portuguese
- óbvio
- Turkish
- belli
- Russian
- очеви́дный očevídnyj
- Arabic
- بَدِيهِيّ badīhiyy
- Chinese
- 明显 míngxiǎn
- Japanese
- 明らか akiraka
26 more languages
- Dutch
- overduidelijk
- Polish
- oczywisty
- Swedish
- uppenbar
- Greek
- προφανής profanís
- Korean
- 뻔하다 ppeonhada
- Indonesian
- jelas
- Hungarian
- nyilvánvaló
- Portuguese (PT)
- óbvio
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 明顯 míngxiǎn
- Breton
- sklaer
- Catalan
- obvi
- Czech
- zřejmý
- Danish
- indlysende
- Esperanto
- evidenta
- Estonian
- selge
- Finnish
- ilmeinen
- Georgian
- აშკარა ašḳara
- Hebrew
- מוּבָן מֵאֵלָיו muván meeláv
- Icelandic
- augljós
- Kurdish
- diyar
- Lithuanian
- akivaizdus
- Romanian
- evident
- Serbo-Croatian
- očit
- Slovenian
- očiten
- Swahili
- wazi
- Welsh
- amlwg
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ob′vi·ous adjective
Origin: L. obvius; ob (see Ob-) + via way. See Voyage.
1. Opposing; fronting. obsolete
To the evil turn My obvious breast.— John Milton
2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. obsolete “Obvious to dispute.” John 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.— Alexander Pope
Synonyms: Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest.
— Ob′wb-a1′>′vi·ous·ly, adverb — Ob′wb-a1′>′vi·ous-ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54