From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apparent \Ap*par"ent\, noun An heir apparent. [Obs.]
I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apparent \Ap*par"ent\, adjective [F. apparent, L. apparens, -entis, p. pr. of apparere. See {Appear}.]
1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
The moon . . . apparent queen. --Milton.
2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
It is apparent foul play. --Shak.
3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun.
To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. --Macaulay.
What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. --Reid.
{Apparent horizon}, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon.
{Heir apparent} (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See {Presumptive}.
Syn: Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain; evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "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" [syn: {evident}, {manifest}, {patent}, {plain}]
2: appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty" [syn: {apparent(a)}, {ostensible}, {seeming(a)}]
3: readily apparent to the eye; "angry for no apparent reason"; "had no visible means of support"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "apparent": Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparitional, appearing, autistic, beholdable, chimeric, clear, clear as crystal, colorable, colored, conceivable, conspicuous, cortical, credible, crystal-clear, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, dreamlike, dreamy, epidermic, erroneous, evident, exomorphic, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, exterior, external, extrinsic, factitious, fake, fallacious, false, fantastic, fringe, gilded, hanging out, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, marked, meretricious, misleading, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open to view, open-and-shut, ostensible, out, outcropping, outer, outermost, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, peripheral, perspicuous, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, plain, plain as day, plausible, ponderable, prominent, pseudo, public, reasonable, recognizable, revealed, roundabout, seeable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sham, showing, specious, spectral, superficial, supposititious, surface, tangible, tinsel, to be seen, unactual, unambiguous, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal, unfounded, unhidden, unmistakable, unreal, unsubstantial, viewable, visible, visionary, visual, witnessable
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