Thesaurus: obvious

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1. a. Opposing; fronting.
2. a. Exposed; subject; open; liable.
3. a. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
4. adj. easily perceived and understood
5. 1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.] To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] "Obvious to dispute." Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope. Syn. -- Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest. -- Ob"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob"vi*ous-ness, n.
6. Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, inbotany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edgeoverlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to acircle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.
7. j:100 a. easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind