Apparent

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apparent \Ap*par"ent\, a. [F. apparent, L. apparens, -entis, p.
     pr. of apparere. See {Appear}.]
     1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view;
        visible to the eye; within sight or view.
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              The moon . . . apparent queen.        --Milton.
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     2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident;
        obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
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              It is apparent foul play.             --Shak.
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     3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not
        necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the
        apparent motion or diameter of the sun.
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              To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent
              friendship.                           --Macaulay.
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              What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by
              astronomers called apparent magnitude. --Reid.
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     {Apparent horizon}, the circle which in a level plain bounds
        our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the
        earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational
        horizon.
  
     {Apparent time}. See {Time}.
  
     {Heir apparent} (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible
        if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from
        presumptive heir. See {Presumptive}.
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     Syn: Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain;
          evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apparent \Ap*par"ent\, n.
     An heir apparent. [Obs.]
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           I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown.
                                                    --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apparent
       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: {evident}, {manifest}, {patent}, {plain}]
       2: appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his
          apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the
          committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the
          ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
          [syn: {apparent(a)}, {ostensible}, {seeming(a)}]
       3: readily apparent to the eye; "angry for no apparent reason";
          "had no visible means of support"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "apparent":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparitional, appearing, autistic,
     beholdable, chimeric, clear, clear as crystal, colorable, colored,
     conceivable, conspicuous, cortical, credible, crystal-clear,
     deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic,
     detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, dreamlike, dreamy,
     epidermic, erroneous, evident, exomorphic, explicit, exposed,
     exposed to view, express, exterior, external, extrinsic,
     factitious, fake, fallacious, false, fantastic, fringe, gilded,
     hanging out, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory,
     imaginary, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view,
     indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, marked, meretricious,
     misleading, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open,
     open to view, open-and-shut, ostensible, out, outcropping, outer,
     outermost, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward,
     outward-facing, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible,
     peripheral, perspicuous, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom,
     plain, plain as day, plausible, ponderable, prominent, pseudo,
     public, reasonable, recognizable, revealed, roundabout, seeable,
     seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, self-evident,
     self-explaining, self-explanatory, sham, showing, specious,
     spectral, superficial, supposititious, surface, tangible, tinsel,
     to be seen, unactual, unambiguous, unclouded, unconcealed,
     undisguised, unequivocal, unfounded, unhidden, unmistakable,
     unreal, unsubstantial, viewable, visible, visionary, visual,
     witnessable
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  APPARENT. That which is manifest what is proved. It is required that all
  things upon which a court must pass, should be made to appear, if matter in
  pays, under oath if matter of record, by the record. It is a rule that those
  things which do not appear, are to be considered as not existing de non
  apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio. Broom's Maxims, 20, What
  does not appear, does not exist; quod non apparet, non est.