evident
ev.i.dent \'ev-*d-*nt, -*-.dent\ aj [ME, fr. MF, fr. L evident-, evidens,
fr. e- + vident-,] videns, prp. of vide-re to see - more at WIT : clear to
the vision and understanding OUS, APPARENT, PLAIN, CLEAN mean readily
perceived or apprehended. EVIDENT implies presence of visible signs which
serve as indications of a person's intention or state of mind or of the
probable nature of a past or coming event or action; MANIFEST implies an
external display so evident that little or no inference is required; PATENT
applies to a cause, effect, or significant feature that is clear and
unmistakable once attention has been directed to it; DISTINCT implies such
sharpness of outline or definition that no unusual effort to see or hear or
comprehend is required; OBVIOUS implies such ease in discovering or
accounting for that it often suggests conspicuousness or little need for
perspicacity in the observer; APPARENT is very close to EVIDENT except that
it may imply more conscious exercise in inference; PLAIN and CLEAR imply
the quality of being unmistakable, PLAIN because of lack of intricacy,
complexity, or elaboration, CLEAR because of an absence of anything that
confuses the mind or obscures the pattern - ev.i.dent.ly av SYN syn
EVIDENT, MANIFEST, PATENT, DISTINCT, OBVI