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OBVIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
Example:
obvious errors
Classified under:
Similar:
apparent; evident; manifest; palpable; patent; plain; unmistakable (clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment)
axiomatic; self-evident; taken for granted (evident without proof or argument)
demonstrable; provable (capable of being demonstrated or proved)
frank (clearly manifest; evident)
open-and-shut (so obvious as to be easily solved or decided)
self-explanatory (needing no explanation)
transparent (easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety))
writ large (made more obvious or prominent)
Also:
open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)
Attribute:
noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency (the property of being easy to see and understand)
Antonym:
unobvious (not immediately apparent)
Derivation:
obviousness (the property of being easy to see and understand)
Context examples:
Surely that is all simple and obvious?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This will be obvious now, or later.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The statement had been obvious and unnecessary.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
An uncontrollable urge to say or do something without an obvious reason.
(Compulsion, NCI Dictionary)
It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The obvious thing is to escort them home, if we knew where their home was.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But one obvious course was left.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On looking back, I realize that the remark was too obvious to make rejoinder necessary.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was one of my friend’s most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He often complains that things do not look as well upon him as upon me, but how can I make the obvious reply?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
