obvious
Syllables: ob·vi·ousUK/ˈɒ.vɪəs//ˈɑb.vi.əs/
obvious adjective: easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
Adjective
obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)
- 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
- During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former...1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224
- Synonyms:
- apparent, arrant, undoubted, glaring, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bell, clear as day, clear cut
obvious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
obvious in Hindi
- easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
- प्रत्यक्ष pratyakṣ
obvious in Tamil
- வெளிப்படை, வெளிப்படையான, தெளிவு, தெளிவான, ஐயமற்ற, கண்கூடான
obvious in Urdu
- obvious, evident, clear, manifest
- عیاں 'ayā̃
obvious in Bengali
- সুস্পষ্ট, স্পষ্ট, প্রকট, অনস্বীকার্য, প্রতীয়মান, সাফ
More languagesFewer languages
- obvious in Malayalam
- സ്പഷ്ടമായ, പ്രത്യക്ഷമായ, പ്രകടമായ
- obvious in Kannada
- ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುವ, ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗುವ, ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟ, ಸುವ್ಯಕ್ತ
- obvious in Punjabi
- ਵਿਅਕਤ viakat
- obvious in Sanskrit
- प्रत्यक्ष pratyákṣa, स्पष्ट spaṣṭá
- obvious in Nepali
- प्रत्यक्ष pratyakṣa
- obvious in Pashto
- ښکاره ẍkâra, څرګند śargand
- obvious in Tagalog
- kanawa-nawa
- obvious in Arabic
- بَدِيهِيّ badīhiyy, بَدَهِيّ badahiyy, وَاضِح wāḍiḥ, مُبِين mubīn
Examples of obvious in a sentence
- One of the most obvious results of the B.R.1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92:
- 'Cause I threw you the obvious / to see what occurs behind / the eyes of a fallen angel / Eyes of a tragedy / Oh well, oh well / Apparently nothing / Apparently nothing at all2000, “3 Libras”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
- It is not obvious, to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all.2013 August 17, “Down towns”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849:
Synonyms of obvious
29 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- conspicuous
- crystal clear
- cut and dried
- decided
- evident
- intuitive
- manifest
- noticeable
- 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
- elucidate
- eyely
- notable
Antonyms
Forms of obvious
| comparative | more obvious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most obvious |
Origin of obvious
16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) + -ous, from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”).
Words formed from obvious
Phrases with obvious
Questions about obvious
- What does obvious mean?
- Obvious means easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
- What is obvious in Hindi?
- Obvious in Hindi is प्रत्यक्ष (pratyakṣ). See Obvious meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use obvious in a sentence?
- One of the most obvious results of the B.R.
- What part of speech is obvious?
- Obvious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce obvious?
- Obvious is pronounced /ˈɑb.vi.əs/ (US).
Words near obvious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: obvious (page history and authors); obvious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); عیاں (Urdu) (page history and authors); obvious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obvious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obvious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਵਿਅਕਤ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); प्रत्यक्ष (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); प्रत्यक्ष (Nepali) (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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