evident
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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”).
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Adjective [edit]
evident (comparative more evident, superlative most evident)
- 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.
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Translations [edit]
obviously true
External links [edit]
- evident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- evident in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Catalan [edit]
Adjective [edit]
evident m, f (masculine and feminine plural evidents)
Middle French [edit]
Adjective [edit]
evident m (feminine singular evidente, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentes)
Descendants [edit]
- French: évident