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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