Definition of obvious Obvious
/ɑˈbviʌs/ - [abveeus] - ob•vi•ous
We found 8 definitions of obvious from 6 different sources.
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What does obvious mean?
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Adjectiveobvious, obviouser, obviousest |
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| obvious - easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "obvious errors" | ||
| unobvious not immediately apparent; "in mathematical science connections are exhibited which...are extremely unobvious"- A.N.Whitehead | ||
| overt, open open and observable; not secret or hidden; "an overt lie"; "overt hostility"; "overt intelligence gathering"; "open ballots" | ||
| noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness, patency the property of being easy to see and understand | ||
| manifest, apparent, evident, patent, unmistakable, plain clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "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" | ||
| self-evident, taken for granted, axiomatic evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" | ||
| provable, demonstrable necessarily or demonstrably true; "demonstrable truths" | ||
| frank clearly manifest; evident; "frank enjoyment" | ||
| open-and-shut so obvious as to be easily solved or decided; "an open-and-shut case" | ||
| self-explanatory needing no explanation | ||
| transparent easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- obvious (Adjective)
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- obvious (a.)
Opposing; fronting. - obvious (a.)
Exposed; subject; open; liable. - obvious (a.)
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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obvious
Clear or manifest to the understanding.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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obvious
ob′vi-us, adj. meeting one in the way: easily discovered or understood: evident.—adv. Ob′viously.—n. Ob′viousness. [L. obvius.]
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