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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Evident \Ev"i*dent\, adjective [F. ['e]vinent, l. evidens, -entis; e out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See {Vision}.] Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.
Your honor and your goodness is so evident. --Shak.
And in our faces evident the signs Of foul concupiscence. --Milton.
Syn: Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent; conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See {Manifest}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
evident
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: {apparent}, {manifest}, {patent}, {plain}]
2: capable of being seen or noticed; "a discernible change in attitude"; "a clearly evident erasure in the manuscript"; "an observable change in behavior" [syn: {discernible}, {observable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "evident": apparent, beholdable, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, comprehensible, conspicuous, crystal-clear, defined, definite, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, glaring, hanging out, in evidence, in focus, in full view, in plain sight, in view, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open to view, open-and-shut, outcropping, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, prominent, pronounced, recognizable, revealed, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, showing, staring, straightforward, tangible, to be seen, unambiguous, unclouded, unconcealed, understandable, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, viewable, visible, visual, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, witnessable
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