Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Easily seen or understood; obvious. See Synonyms at apparent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Plainly seen or perceived; manifest; obvious; plain: as, an evident mistake; it is evident that he took the wrong path.
- Clearly discernible or distinguishable; certain; indubitable: as, in entomology, an evident scutellum (that is, one well developed, or not concealed by other parts).
- Furnishing evidence; conclusive.
- Synonyms Clear, Plain, etc. (see manifest, a.); palpable, patent, unmistakable. See list under apparent.
- n. Something which serves as evidence; evidence; specifically, in Scots law, a writ or title-deed by which property is proved: a term used in conveyancing.
Wiktionary
- adj. Obviously true by simple observation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of being seen or noticed
- adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
Etymologies
- 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"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ēvidēns, ēvident- : ē-, ex-, ex- + vidēns, present participle of vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This attitude was not taken in earlier years however, as is evident from the following statement made by Committee Chairman Arne Westgren, in a survey over the first 60 years of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
“What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Pretty Good Climategate Summary
“Firebird is set in Kansas, but, as is evident from the number of sales to foreign publishers, it has an international appeal.”
“It's evident from the Stewart rally that we are a country of aspiring comedians and witty sign-makers.”
The Huffington Post: Shaun Johnson: Can Social Studies Deliver Us from Insanity?
“Recognizing such behaviours that often result in evident self-harm (or refusal of care), is one of the few true frustrations that I experience in working with patients, often leaving me no option but to refer them for psychological or psychiatric assessment and management.”
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession
“Consequently, NIPA profits have been far less subject to the spin evident in reports to shareholders in recent years.”
The 1990's Bubble Economy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The capabalities of an average engineer in India is evident from the fact that many Product companies like”
Indian Labor Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“These are rather more extreme examples but 1 fact is clearly evident from the divergence of their underlying value at the time of their downfall and their reflected stock price ... key-insider information was restricted by a select few who profited and violated the Strong-Form EMH.”
Resisting Efficient Markets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Avatar, its fairly evident, is just such a project.”
“A theme that became evident from the very start was the obviously conflicting interests of the parties in attendance.”
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Words used in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
decadence, emancipation, nostalgia, abounded, modernity, revolution, famine, conservative, privy, vied, nascent, correspondence and 211 more...
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Day Day Up
spurn, underscore, bode, anecdotal, phenomenal, straddle, epic, redux, unspool, rhetoric, censor, savvy and 38 more...
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ogollyitsmolly's Words
defenestrate, obsolescence, parochial, conceit, baragouin, arisen, absolutism, despot, mollycoddle, legitimation, hodgepodge, mollify and 35 more...
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