apparent as an adjective: - 1
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apparent
adjective
1 apparent
Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment:
— The effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields.
synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable.
Roget 525:
manifest,
apparent;
salient,
striking,
demonstrative,
prominent,
in the foreground,
notable,
pronounced.
flagrant;
notorious
etc.
(public)
531;
arrant;
stark staring;
unshaded,
glaring.
defined,
definite.
distinct,
conspicuous
etc.
(visible)
446;
obvious,
evident,
unmistakable,
indubitable,
not to be mistaken,
palpable,
self-evident,
autoptical†;
intelligible
etc.
518.
plain,
clear,
clear as day,
clear as daylight,
clear as noonday;
plain as a pike staff,
plain as the sun at noon-day,
plain as the nose on one's face,
plain as the way to parish church.
explicit,
overt,
patent,
express;
ostensible;
open,
open as day;
naked,
bare,
literal,
downright,
undisguised,
exoteric.
unreserved,
frank,
plain-spoken
etc.
(artless)
703;
candid
(veracious)
543;
barefaced.
manifested
etc.
v.;
disclosed
etc.
529;
capable of being shown,
producible;
inconcealable†,
unconcealable;
no secret.
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Roget 446:
visible,
perceptible,
perceivable,
discernible,
apparent;
in view,
in full view,
in sight;
exposed to view,
en vidence;
unclouded,
unobscured†,
in the foreground.
obvious
etc.
(manifest)
525;
plain,
clear,
distinct,
definite;
well defined,
well marked;
in focus;
recognizable,
palpable,
autoptical†;
glaring,
staring,
conspicuous;
stereoscopic;
in bold,
in strong relief.
periscopic†,
panoramic.
before one's eyes,
under one's eyes;
before one,
+a vue d'oeil [Fr.],
in one's eye,
oculis subjecta fidelibus [Lat.].
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Roget 6:
derived from without;
objective;
extrinsic,
extrinsical†;
extraneous
etc.
(foreign)
57;
modal,
adventitious;
ascititious†,
adscititious†;
incidental,
accidental,
nonessential;
contingent,
fortuitous.
implanted,
ingrafted†;
inculcated,
infused.
outward,
apparent
etc.
(external)
220.
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Polish: ewidentny
2 apparent
Appearing as such but not necessarily so:
— For all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent.
— The committee investigated some apparent discrepancies.
synonyms: ostensible, seeming.
Roget 472:
probable,
likely,
hopeful,
to be expected,
in a fair way.
plausible,
specious,
ostensible,
colorable,
ben trovato [It],
well-founded,
reasonable,
credible,
easy of belief,
presumable,
presumptive,
apparent.
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Roget 448:
apparent,
seeming,
ostensible;
on view.
Polish: pozorny, fasadowy
Moby thesaurus: Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparitional, appearing, autistic, beholdable, chimeric, clear, clear as crystal, colorable, colored, conceivable, conspicuous, cortical, credible, crystal-clear, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, dreamlike, dreamy, epidermic, erroneous, evident, exomorphic, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, exterior, external, extrinsic, factitious, fake, fallacious, false, fantastic, fringe, gilded, hanging out, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, marked, meretricious, misleading, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open to view, open-and-shut, ostensible, out, outcropping, outer, outermost, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, peripheral, perspicuous, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, plain, plain as day, plausible, ponderable, prominent, pseudo, public, reasonable, recognizable, revealed, roundabout, seeable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sham, showing, specious, spectral, superficial, supposititious, surface, tangible, tinsel, to be seen, unactual, unambiguous, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal, unfounded, unhidden, unmistakable, unreal, unsubstantial, viewable, visible, visionary, visual, witnessable ... show more.
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