Word Meanings - OBVIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Opposing; fronting. To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. "Obvious to dispute." Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident;

Additional info about word: OBVIOUS

1. Opposing; fronting. To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. "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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBVIOUS)

• Apparent
• Obvious
• plain
• conspicuous
• manifest
• appearing
• unmistakable
• clear
• probable
• seeming
• presumable
• likely
• patent
• ostensible
• visible
• evident
• indubitable
• notorious
• certain
• Clear \adj Open
• pure
• bright
• transparent
• free
• disencumbered
• disentangled
• disengaged
• absolved
• acquitted
• serene
• unclouded
• apparent
• distinct
• unobstructed
• obvious
• intelligible
• lucid
• Distinct
• Separate
• independent
• unconnected
• detached
• disjoined
• unlike
• definite
• different
• dissimilar
• perspicuous
• Evident
• Plum
• indisputable
• palpable
• incontrovertible
• Palpable
• Material
• corporal
• tangible
• gross
• perceptible

Related words: (words related to OBVIOUS)

• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• INDISPUTABLE
  Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• PATENT
  Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• EVIDENTIARY
  Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• DISTINCTURE
  Distinctness.
• DISTINCTIVENESS
  State of being distinctive.
• PALPABLE
  1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak. Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness. Milton. 2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross;
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• UNDISTINCTLY
  Indistinctly.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.