Definitions for: Obvious


[adj] obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening"
[adj] easily perceived or understood; "obvious errors"
[adj] obvious to the eye; "a visible change of expression"
[adj] easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "a perceptible sense of expectation in the court"; "an obvious (or palpable) lie"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ob"vi*ous, a. [L. obvius; ob (see Ob-) + via way.
See Voyage.]
1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]

To the evil turn My obvious breast. --Milton.

2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] ``Obvious to
dispute.'' --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. --Pope.

Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest. --
Ob"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob"vi*ous-ness, n.

Synonyms: apparent, attention-getting, axiomatic, big, bold, conspicuous, crying(a), demonstrable, egregious, evident, exhibitionist(a), exhibitionistic, eye-catching, featured, flagrant, frank, glaring, gross, in evidence, large, manifest, marked, open, open-and-shut, outstanding, overt, palpable, patent, perceptible, plain, prominent, provable, rank, salient, self-evident, self-explanatory, spectacular, striking, taken for granted(p), tangible, transparent, under her nose, under his nose, under my nose, under one's nose, under our noses, under your nose, visible, writ large

Antonyms: inconspicuous, invisible, unobvious

See Also: indiscreet

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