2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evident \Ev"i*dent\, a. [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 sings Of foul
concupiscence. --Milton.
Syn: Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent;
conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See
{Manifest}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
evident
adj 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}]
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