"obvious" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈɑb.vi.əs/ [General-American], /ˈɑ.vi.əs/ [General-American], /ˈɒ.vɪəs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɒb.vɪəs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɒv.jəs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-obvious.ogg [US] Forms: more obvious [comparative], most obvious [superlative]
Etymology: 16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) + -ous, from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”). Etymology templates: {{af|en|la:obvius<t:being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious>|-ous}} Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) + -ous, {{m|la|ob-||before}} ob- (“before”), {{m|la|via||way}} via (“way”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)
  1. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory. Hyponyms: immediate, indubitable, self-evident, undoubtable [rare], univocal Related terms: obviously Translations (easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory): بَدِيهِيّ (badīhiyy) (Arabic), بَدَهِيّ (badahiyy) (Arabic), وَاضِح (wāḍiḥ) (Arabic), مُبِين (mubīn) (Arabic), بَيِّن (bayyin) (Arabic), ակնհայտ (aknhayt) (Armenian), obviu (Asturian), aşkar (Azerbaijani), açıq-aşkar (Azerbaijani), bariz (Azerbaijani), aydın (Azerbaijani), ageriko (Basque), відаво́чны (vidavóčny) [masculine] (Belarusian), очеви́ден (očevíden) (Bulgarian), obvi (Catalan), 明顯 (Chinese Cantonese), 明显 (ming⁴ hin²) (Chinese Cantonese), 明顯 (Chinese Mandarin), 明显 (míngxiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 顯然 (Chinese Mandarin), 显然 (xiǎnrán) (Chinese Mandarin), 顯而易見 (Chinese Mandarin), 显而易见 (xiǎn'éryìjiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 明擺著 (Chinese Mandarin), 明摆著 (míngbǎizhe) (Chinese Mandarin), 明摆着 (míngbǎizhe) (Chinese Mandarin), zřejmý [masculine] (Czech), samozřejmý (Czech), tydelig (Danish), åbenbar (Danish), oplagt (Danish), indlysende (Danish), åbenlys (Danish), overduidelijk (Dutch), voor de hand liggend (Dutch), voordehandliggend (Dutch), evidenta (Esperanto), selge (Estonian), ilmselge (Estonian), ilmeinen (Finnish), ilmiselvä (Finnish), itsestäänselvä (Finnish), évident (French), obvio (Galician), საჩინო (sačino) [obsolete] (Georgian), ცხადი (cxadi) (Georgian), აშკარა (ašḳara) (Georgian), offensichtlich (German), selbstverständlich (German), deutlich (German), überdeutlich (German), offenbar (German), evident [literary] (German), 𐌿𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (uskunþs) (Gothic), 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (swikunþs) (Gothic), προφανής (profanís) (Greek), מוּבָן מֵאֵלָיו (muván meeláv) [masculine] (Hebrew), nyilvánvaló (Hungarian), egyértelmű (Hungarian), kézenfekvő (Hungarian), magától értetődő (Hungarian), ակնհայտ (Hya), augljós (Icelandic), bersýnilegur (Icelandic), soiléir (Irish), follasach (Irish), ovvio (Italian), evidente (Italian), 明らか (akiraka) (alt: あきらか) (Japanese), cetha (Javanese), ulata (Kapampangan), ជាក់ស្តែង (cĕəkstaeng) (Khmer), 분명하다 (bunmyeonghada) (Korean), perspicuus [masculine] (Latin), acīm redzams (Latvian), akivaizdus [masculine] (Lithuanian), очи́гледен (očígleden) (Macedonian), оче́виден (očéviden) (Macedonian), mārama (Maori), tīahoaho (Maori), ariari (Maori), pūrangiaho (Maori), opplagt (Norwegian), innlysende (Norwegian), òbvi (Occitan), akiwīsts (Old Prussian), آچق (açık) (Ottoman Turkish), بللی (belli) (Ottoman Turkish), ظاهر (zahir) (Ottoman Turkish), منجلی (münceli) (Ottoman Turkish), ښکاره (ẍkâra) [feminine, masculine] (Pashto), څرګند (śargand) [masculine] (Pashto), kloa (Plautdietsch), dietlich (Plautdietsch), oczywisty [masculine] (Polish), óbvio (Portuguese), evident (Romanian), clar (Romanian), limpede (Romanian), vădit (Romanian), очеви́дный (očevídnyj) (Russian), očiten (Slovene), obvio (Spanish), evidente (Spanish), tydlig (Swedish), uppenbar (Swedish), kanawa-nawa (Tagalog), pākri (Tocharian B), belli (Turkish), açık (Turkish), belirgin (Turkish), bariz (Turkish), net (Turkish), очеви́дний (očevýdnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), я́вний (jávnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), amlwg (Welsh), akerde (diq) (Zazaki), bellı (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-obvious-en-adj-z6p-Cw1H Categories (other): Belarusian terms with redundant script codes, Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ous, Hya terms in nonstandard scripts, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes Synonyms: apparent, bait [Multicultural-London-English], blatant, clear, clear as a bell, clear as day, clear cut [idiomatic], crystal clear, cut and dried [idiomatic], elucidate [obsolete], evident, eyely [archaic], intuitive, manifest, notable [dated], noticeable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, palpable, plain, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as Salisbury, plain as the nose on one's face, prima facie [legal, law], res ipsa loquitur, straightforward Derived forms: master of the obvious, non-obvious, obvious by inspection, obviously, obviousness, state the obvious, obvious error, obvious fact, obvious contradiction, increasingly obvious, perfectly obvious, very obvious, quite obvious, fairly obvious, rather obvious, sufficiently obvious, immediately obvious, painfully obvious, blatantly obvious, glaringly obvious, patently obvious

Alternative forms

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        {
          "word": "obviously"
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          "word": "painfully obvious"
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          "ref": "1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224",
          "text": "During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British \"border raid\") to the London Midland, and so on.",
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          "ref": "1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92",
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          "ref": "2013 August 17, “Down towns”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849",
          "text": "It is not obvious, to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.",
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          "word": "palpable"
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          "word": "plain as Salisbury"
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          "topics": [
            "legal",
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          "word": "prima facie"
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        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "badīhiyy",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "بَدِيهِيّ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "badahiyy",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "بَدَهِيّ"
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          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "wāḍiḥ",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "وَاضِح"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "mubīn",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "مُبِين"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "bayyin",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "بَيِّن"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "aknhayt",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ակնհայտ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "obviu"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "aşkar"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "açıq-aşkar"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "bariz"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "aydın"
        },
        {
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ageriko"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "vidavóčny",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "відаво́чны"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "očevíden",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "очеви́ден"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "obvi"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明顯"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "ming⁴ hin²",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明显"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明顯"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "míngxiǎn",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明显"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "顯然"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiǎnrán",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "显然"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "顯而易見"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiǎn'éryìjiàn",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "显而易见"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明擺著"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "míngbǎizhe",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明摆著"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "míngbǎizhe",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明摆着"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zřejmý"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "samozřejmý"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "tydelig"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "åbenbar"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "oplagt"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "indlysende"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "åbenlys"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "overduidelijk"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "voor de hand liggend"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "voordehandliggend"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "evidenta"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "selge"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ilmselge"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ilmeinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ilmiselvä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "itsestäänselvä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "évident"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "obvio"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "sačino",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "საჩინო"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "cxadi",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ცხადი"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ašḳara",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "აშკარა"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "offensichtlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "selbstverständlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "deutlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "überdeutlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "offenbar"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "evident"
        },
        {
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "uskunþs",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "𐌿𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃"
        },
        {
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "swikunþs",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "profanís",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "προφανής"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "muván meeláv",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "מוּבָן מֵאֵלָיו"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "nyilvánvaló"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "egyértelmű"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "kézenfekvő"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "magától értetődő"
        },
        {
          "code": "hya",
          "lang": "Hya",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ակնհայտ"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "augljós"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "bersýnilegur"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "soiléir"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "follasach"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ovvio"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "evidente"
        },
        {
          "alt": "あきらか",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "akiraka",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "明らか"
        },
        {
          "code": "jv",
          "lang": "Javanese",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "cetha"
        },
        {
          "code": "pam",
          "lang": "Kapampangan",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ulata"
        },
        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cĕəkstaeng",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ជាក់ស្តែង"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "bunmyeonghada",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "분명하다"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "perspicuus"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "acīm redzams"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "akivaizdus"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "očígleden",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "очи́гледен"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "očéviden",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "оче́виден"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "mārama"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "tīahoaho"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ariari"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "pūrangiaho"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "opplagt"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "innlysende"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "òbvi"
        },
        {
          "code": "prg",
          "lang": "Old Prussian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "akiwīsts"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "açık",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "آچق"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "belli",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "بللی"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "zahir",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "ظاهر"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "münceli",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "منجلی"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "ẍkâra",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ښکاره"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "śargand",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "څرګند"
        },
        {
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "kloa"
        },
        {
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "dietlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "oczywisty"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "óbvio"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "evident"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "clar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "limpede"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "vădit"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "očevídnyj",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "очеви́дный"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "očiten"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "obvio"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "evidente"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "tydlig"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "uppenbar"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "kanawa-nawa"
        },
        {
          "code": "txb",
          "lang": "Tocharian B",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "pākri"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "belli"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "açık"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "belirgin"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "bariz"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "net"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "očevýdnyj",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "очеви́дний"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "jávnyj",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "я́вний"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "amlwg"
        },
        {
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "akerde (diq)"
        },
        {
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
          "word": "bellı"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑb.vi.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑ.vi.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒ.vɪəs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒb.vɪəs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒv.jəs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-obvious.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/En-us-obvious.ogg/En-us-obvious.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/En-us-obvious.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "obvious"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "clear as mud"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "inevident"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "nonevident"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "muddied"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "muddled"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "non-obvious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "nonobvious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "opaque"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "subtle"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "unclear"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "unobvious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "unevident"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "master of the obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "non-obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "obvious by inspection"
    },
    {
      "word": "obviously"
    },
    {
      "word": "obviousness"
    },
    {
      "word": "state the obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "obvious error"
    },
    {
      "word": "obvious fact"
    },
    {
      "word": "obvious contradiction"
    },
    {
      "word": "increasingly obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "perfectly obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "very obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "quite obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "fairly obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "rather obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "sufficiently obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "immediately obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "painfully obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "blatantly obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "glaringly obvious"
    },
    {
      "word": "patently obvious"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la:obvius<t:being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious>",
        "3": "-ous"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) + -ous",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ob-",
        "3": "",
        "4": "before"
      },
      "expansion": "ob- (“before”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "via",
        "3": "",
        "4": "way"
      },
      "expansion": "via (“way”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) + -ous, from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more obvious",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most obvious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ob‧vi‧ous"
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "immediate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "indubitable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "self-evident"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "undoubtable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "univocal"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "obviously"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Belarusian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms suffixed with -ous",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Hya terms in nonstandard scripts",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224",
          "text": "During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British \"border raid\") to the London Midland, and so on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92",
          "text": "One of the most obvious results of the B.R. Modernisation Plan has been the increasing use of diesel and electric traction; a less obvious by-product is the increase in track damage possible with the new forms of traction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 17, “Down towns”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849",
          "text": "It is not obvious, to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.",
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          "discover"
        ],
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          "seen",
          "seen"
        ],
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          "understood"
        ],
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        ]
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      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈɑ.vi.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒ.vɪəs/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒb.vɪəs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒv.jəs/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "apparent"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "tags": [
        "Multicultural-London-English"
      ],
      "word": "bait"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "blatant"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "clear"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "clear as a bell"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "clear as day"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "word": "clear cut"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "crystal clear"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "word": "cut and dried"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "elucidate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "evident"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "eyely"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
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    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "manifest"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "noticeable"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "obvious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "open-and-shut"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "ostensible"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "palpable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as a haystack"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as a pikestaff"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as day"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as Dunstable highway"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as porridge"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as print"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as Salisbury"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "plain as the nose on one's face"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "topics": [
        "legal",
        "law"
      ],
      "word": "prima facie"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "res ipsa loquitur"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:obvious",
      "word": "straightforward"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "badīhiyy",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "بَدِيهِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "badahiyy",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "بَدَهِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "wāḍiḥ",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "وَاضِح"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mubīn",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "مُبِين"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "bayyin",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "بَيِّن"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "aknhayt",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ակնհայտ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "obviu"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "aşkar"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "açıq-aşkar"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "bariz"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "aydın"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ageriko"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "vidavóčny",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "відаво́чны"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "očevíden",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "очеви́ден"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "obvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明顯"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "ming⁴ hin²",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明显"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明顯"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "míngxiǎn",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明显"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "顯然"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎnrán",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "显然"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "顯而易見"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎn'éryìjiàn",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "显而易见"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明擺著"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "míngbǎizhe",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明摆著"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "míngbǎizhe",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明摆着"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zřejmý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "samozřejmý"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "tydelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "åbenbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "oplagt"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "indlysende"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "åbenlys"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "overduidelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "voor de hand liggend"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "voordehandliggend"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "evidenta"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "selge"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ilmselge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ilmeinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ilmiselvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "itsestäänselvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "évident"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "obvio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sačino",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "საჩინო"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "cxadi",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ცხადი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ašḳara",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "აშკარა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "offensichtlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "selbstverständlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "deutlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "überdeutlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "offenbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "evident"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "uskunþs",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "𐌿𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "swikunþs",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "profanís",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "προφανής"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "muván meeláv",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מוּבָן מֵאֵלָיו"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "nyilvánvaló"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "egyértelmű"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "kézenfekvő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "magától értetődő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hya",
      "lang": "Hya",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ակնհայտ"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "augljós"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "bersýnilegur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "soiléir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "follasach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ovvio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "evidente"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あきらか",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "akiraka",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "明らか"
    },
    {
      "code": "jv",
      "lang": "Javanese",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "cetha"
    },
    {
      "code": "pam",
      "lang": "Kapampangan",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ulata"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cĕəkstaeng",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ជាក់ស្តែង"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bunmyeonghada",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "분명하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "perspicuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "acīm redzams"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "akivaizdus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "očígleden",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "очи́гледен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "očéviden",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "оче́виден"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "mārama"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "tīahoaho"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ariari"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "pūrangiaho"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "opplagt"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "innlysende"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "òbvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "prg",
      "lang": "Old Prussian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "akiwīsts"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "açık",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "آچق"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "belli",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "بللی"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "zahir",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "ظاهر"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "münceli",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "منجلی"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "ẍkâra",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ښکاره"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "śargand",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "څرګند"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "kloa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "dietlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oczywisty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "óbvio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "evident"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "clar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "limpede"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "vădit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "očevídnyj",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "очеви́дный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "očiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "obvio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "evidente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "tydlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "uppenbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "kanawa-nawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "pākri"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "belli"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "açık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "belirgin"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "bariz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "net"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "očevýdnyj",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "очеви́дний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "jávnyj",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "я́вний"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "amlwg"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "akerde (diq)"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory",
      "word": "bellı"
    }
  ],
  "word": "obvious"
}

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