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obv.

UK/ɒbv/

obv. is the abbreviation of obvious.

obv. is the abbreviation of obviously.

obv. is the abbreviation of obverse.

Meaning of obvious

Adjective

obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)

  1. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St....1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

Meaning of obviously

Adverb

obviously (comparative more obviously, superlative most obviously)

  1. In an obvious or clearly apparent manner.
    • She was in floods of tears and obviously very upset.
    Synonyms:
    apparently
  2. (colloquial) Used as a filler word, or to introduce information even when not obvious.
    • You weren't to know, but I've spoken to, obviously, Jim about this, and ...

Forms of obv.

Adjective
comparativemore obv.
superlativemost obv.
Adverb
comparativemore obv.
superlativemost obv.
Noun
pluralobv.

Questions about obv.

What is obv. the abbreviation of?
Obv. is the abbreviation of obvious.
How do you pronounce obv.?
Obv. is pronounced /ɒbv/ (UK).

Words near obv. in the dictionary

  1. obuncous
  2. oburoni
  3. oburonis
  4. OBUs
  5. obv
  6. obv.
  7. obvallate
  8. obvelation
  9. obvention
  10. obventions
  11. obversant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obv. (page history and authors); obvious (page history and authors); obviously (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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