Evident

3 definitions found

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

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           And in our faces evident the signs
           Of foul concupiscence.                   --Milton.
  
     Syn: Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent;
          conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See
          {Manifest}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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