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    • 1.3.1 Synonyms
    • 1.3.2 Antonyms
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Etymology

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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”).[1]

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑb.vi.əs/, (fast speech) /ˈɑ.vi.əs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒ.vɪəs/, /ˈɒb.vɪəs/, (fast speech) /ˈɒv.jəs/
• Hyphenation: ob‧vi‧ous

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Adjective

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obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)

1. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
   • 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224: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 L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.
   • 1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92:One of the most obvious results of the B.R. Modernisation Plan has been the increasing use of diesel and electric traction; a less obvious by-product is the increase in track damage possible with the new forms of traction.
   • 2000, “3 Libras”, performed by A Perfect Circle:'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 all
   • 2013 August 17, “Down towns”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849:It is not obvious, to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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• Captain Obvious
• master of the obvious
• non-obvious
• nonobvious
• obvi
• obviosity
• obvious by inspection
• obviously
• obviousness
• overobvious
• semiobvious
• state the obvious
• unobvious

Related terms

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• obviate

Collocations

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• obvious error
• obvious fact
• obvious contradiction
• increasingly obvious
• perfectly obvious
• very obvious
• quite obvious
• fairly obvious
• rather obvious
• sufficiently obvious
• immediately obvious
• painfully obvious
• blatantly obvious
• glaringly obvious
• patently obvious

Translations

[edit] easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: بَدِيهِيّ (badīhiyy), بَدَهِيّ (badahiyy), وَاضِح (wāḍiḥ), مُبِين (mubīn), بَيِّن (ar) (bayyin) Hijazi Arabic: وَاضِح (wāḍiḥ) South Levantine Arabic: وَاضِح (wāḍiḥ) Armenian: ակնհայտ (hy) (aknhayt) Asturian: obviu Azerbaijani: aşkar (az), açıq-aşkar (az), bariz, aydın (az) Basque: ageriko Belarusian: відаво́чны (be) m (vidavóčny) Bulgarian: очеви́ден (bg) (očevíden) Catalan: obvi (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 明顯 / 明显 (ming4 hin2) Mandarin: 明顯 / 明显 (zh) (míngxiǎn), 顯然 / 显然 (zh) (xiǎnrán), 顯而易見 / 显而易见 (zh) (xiǎn'éryìjiàn), 明擺著 / 明摆著 (zh) (míngbǎizhe), 明摆着 (zh) (míngbǎizhe) Czech: zřejmý (cs) m, samozřejmý (cs) Danish: tydelig, åbenbar, oplagt, indlysende (da), åbenlys Dutch: overduidelijk (nl), voor de hand liggend, voordehandliggend Esperanto: evidenta Estonian: selge, ilmselge Finnish: ilmeinen (fi), ilmiselvä (fi), itsestäänselvä (fi) French: évident (fr) Galician: obvio Georgian: (obsolete) საჩინო (sačino), ცხადი (cxadi), აშკარა (ašḳara) German: offensichtlich (de); selbstverständlich (de); deutlich (de); überdeutlich (de); offenbar (de); (learned) evident (de) Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (uskunþs), 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (swikunþs) Greek: προφανής (el) (profanís) Hebrew: מוּבָן מֵאֵלָיו (he) m (muván meeláv) Hindi: प्रत्यक्ष (hi) (pratyakṣ) Hungarian: nyilvánvaló (hu), egyértelmű (hu), kézenfekvő (hu), magától értetődő (hu) Icelandic: augljós, bersýnilegur (is) Interlingua: obvie Irish: soiléir, follasach Italian: ovvio (it), evidente (it) Japanese: 当たり前 (ja) (あたりまえ, atarimae), 明らか (ja) (あきらか, akiraka) Javanese: cetha (jv) Kapampangan: ulata Khmer: ជាក់ស្តែង (cĕəkstaeng) Korean: 당연(當然)하다 (ko) (dang'yeonhada), 뻔하다 (ko) (ppeonhada) Latin: perspicuus m, manifestus m Latvian: acīm redzams Lithuanian: akivaizdus m Macedonian: очи́гледен (očígleden), оче́виден (očéviden) Maori: mārama, tīahoaho, ariari, pūrangiaho Norwegian: opplagt, innlysende Occitan: òbvi (oc) Old English: andġiete Old Prussian: akiwīsts Ottoman Turkish: آچق (açık), بللی (belli), ظاهر (zahir), منجلی (münceli), دركار (derkâr) Pashto: ښکاره (ps) m or f (ẍkâra), څرګند m (śargand) Persian: please add this translation if you can Plautdietsch: kloa, dietlich Polish: oczywisty (pl) m Portuguese: óbvio (pt) Romanian: evident (ro), clar (ro), limpede (ro), vădit (ro) Russian: очеви́дный (ru) (očevídnyj) Slovene: očiten Spanish: obvio (es), evidente (es) Swedish: tydlig (sv), uppenbar (sv) Tagalog: kanawa-nawa Tamil: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Tocharian B: pākri Turkish: belli (tr), açık (tr), belirgin (tr), bariz (tr), net (tr) Ukrainian: очеви́дний (uk) m (očevýdnyj), я́вний (uk) m (jávnyj) Welsh: amlwg (cy) Zazaki: akerde (diq), bellı

References

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1. ^ William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “obvious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 4070, column 1.

Further reading

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• “obvious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “obvious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• obvious in Britannica Dictionary
• obvious in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• obvious in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• obvious in WordReference English Collocations

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