Evident
['evɪd(ə)nt] or ['ɛvɪdənt]
Definition
(a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.
Checker: Thelma
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Plain, clear, manifest, apparent, obvious, palpable, patent, unmistakable.
Checker: Neil
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Plum, visible, conspicuous, manifest, indisputable, obvious, clear, palpable,incontrovertible
ANT:Doubtful, obscure, questionable, uncertain, dubious
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Definition
adj. that is visible or can be seen: clear to the mind: obvious.—n. Ev′idence that which makes evident: means of proving an unknown or disputed fact: information in a law case as 'to give evidence:' a witness.—v.t. to render evident: (obs.) to attest prove.—adjs. Eviden′tial Eviden′tiary furnishing evidence: tending to prove.—advs. Eviden′tially; Ev′idently (N.T.) visibly.—In evidence received by the court as competent evidence: plainly visible conspicuous—a penny-a-liner's phrase adopted from the Fr. en evidence; Turn King's (Queen's) evidence (of an accomplice in a crime) to give evidence against his partners.
Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Whereas, it must be evident to yourself, as it is to me, that you have been this evening very different from what you were before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But some sense that perhaps the economic man is not a self-evident creature seems to have touched our author. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was evident that the impression left by Mrs. Fairlie's kindness was not, as I had supposed, the only strong impression on her memory. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In Sherwood ForeSt.' It was evident he knew the place. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That this cannot take place in modes, is evident from considering their mature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Why no,--I think--you had better--better say nothing about it, said Sophia, with ill-disguised anxiety and evident confusion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Fred ended, innocently referring only to his own love as probably evident enough. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They had gone, in shortand very great had been the evident distress and confusion of the lady. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It is evident that the quest of the new planet had become general. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is evident the idea of darkness is no positive idea, but merely the negation of light, or more properly speaking, of coloured and visible objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was evident, indeed, that she wished me to drop the subject, which I did accordingly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And Mr. Smallweed says it not without evident apprehensions of his dear friend, who still stands over him looming larger than ever. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It's evident the poor devil's in love with me, thought he. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister's observation. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is evident that if we cut our fodder at the time the corn is glazing our practice is as near correct as the present stage of investigation points out. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It was evident that subsequen tly to the formation of the basalt that portion of the coast containing the white stratum had been elevated. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is evident by this, added Jane, that he comes back no more this winter. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Wildeve was silent; it was evident that he had supposed as much. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The three rushed me with the evident purpose of forcing me back the few steps that would carry my body over the rail into the void below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was soon evident that this was the reddleman who had inquired for her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In its incipience at least it is evident that the Royal Society was filled with the spirit of tolerance and co?pera tion, and was singularly free from the spirit of envy and faction. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Mr. Brooke was speaking at the same time, but it was evident that Mr. Casaubon was observing Dorothea, and she was aware of it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He described it as if he were there, and it was evident that he saw it vividly; perhaps he had not seen much in his life. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Twas evident she knew not of the disaster. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All this was sufficiently evident with respect to man. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was evident that the enemy was covering a retreat from Grand Gulf to Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Tabitha