evident

See also évident

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin evidens (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin evideri (“to appear plainly”)), from Latin e (“out”) + videre (“see”), present participle videns, deponent videri (“to appear, seem”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛvidənt/

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Adjective

evident (comparative more evident, superlative most evident)

1. Obviously true by simple observation.

   It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.

   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, The Dust of Conflict^[1]:

     Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.

Derived terms

• self-evident

Related terms

• evidence
• evidential

Translations

obviously true

• Albanian: dukshëm (sq)
• Bulgarian: очевиден (bg) (očeviden)
• Catalan: evident (ca)
• Czech: zjevný (cs), evidentní (cs)
• Danish: indlysende (da)
• Finnish: selvä (fi), ilmeinen (fi), silminnähtävä (fi)
• French: évident (fr) m
• Hungarian: nyilvánvaló (hu), evidens (hu)

• Italian: evidente (it)
• Pashto: ښکاره (ps) (ẍkâra), څرګند (ps) (śargand)
• Polish: jasny (pl), oczywisty (pl)
• Portuguese: evidente (pt)
• Romanian: evident (ro)
• Russian: очеви́дный (ru) (očevídnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:

  Roman:očito (sh)

• Spanish: evidente (es)

External links

• evident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• evident in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Catalan

Adjective

evident m, f (masculine and feminine plural evidents)

1. obvious; evident

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Middle French

Adjective

evident m (feminine singular evidente, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentes)

1. obvious; evident

Descendants

• French: évident