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adjective

Obvious adj.

Opposing; fronting. (Obs.) "To the evil turn My obvious breast."

Exposed; subject; open; liable. (Obs.) "Obvious to dispute."

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."

Synonyms: Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Obvious" Quotes from Famous Books

... [9]For obvious reasons the original has been slightly altered. The German is, Insonderheit nimm wohl in acht ...

— Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs - Translated by John Kelly • Paul Gerhardt

... doctor held, was an imperative concomitant of all really free thinking. Revolutionary speculation is one of those things that must be divorced absolutely from revolutionary conduct. It was to the neglect of these obvious principles, as the doctor considered them, that the general muddle in contemporary marital affairs was very largely due. We left divorce-law revision to exposed adulterers and marriage reform to hot adolescents and craving spinsters driven by the furies ...

— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells

... extent that another two feet of water was rapidly made. It was a fearful condition to be in—in a treacherous channel, with a high wind, and vessel pretty well beyond control. The possibility of striking on one of the numerous rocks was obvious. In tearing away the masts, five of the seamen fell overboard and were drowned. About breakfast-time order began to be restored on the ship, and she managed to get into the wind's course, where she remained for a couple of hours, giving the terrified people ...

— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope

... Montesquieu's principles lead to the conclusion that all reform and amelioration of existing institutions, to be either durable or beneficial, must be moulded on the old precedents, and deviate as little as may be, and that only from obvious necessity or expedience, from them. They utterly repudiate all transplantation of constitutions, or forcing upon one people the institutions or privileges of another. They point to experience as the great and only sure guide in social or political change, and for the obvious reason, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various

... from the duck which had supplied my clandestine meal in the bushes. I suffered them to appease their hunger before I ventured to tell my comrades of the offence of which I had been guilty. All justified my conduct, declaring my conclusions obvious. As it turned out, my proceeding was right enough; but if I had failed to meet with any game, I had been guilty of an offence which would have ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

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