English Explanatory Dictionary

evident

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Obviously true by simple observation.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/ /ˈɛv.ə.dənt/ en-us-evident.ogg

Word forms

evident more evident most evident

Etymology

From Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.

Synonyms

apparent arrant undoubted glaring bait blatant clear clear as a bell clear as day clear cut conspicuous crystal clear cut and dried decided elucidate evident eyely intuitive manifest notable noticeable obvious open-and-shut ostensible palpable patent plain plain as a haystack plain as a pikestaff plain as day plain as Dunstable highway plain as porridge plain as print plain as Salisbury plain as the nose on one's face prima facie res ipsa loquitur splendent straightforward undissembled

Related words

evidence evidential

Derived words

evidently evidentness inevident nonevident self-evident superevident tamper-evident unevident
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