"self-evident" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-us-self-evident.ogg [US] Forms: self-evident [positive], [comparative], [superlative]
Etymology: self- + evident Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|self|evident}} self- + evident Head templates: {{adj}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If something is self-evident, it is clearly, obviously true. People do not need any proof to know that it is true.
    Sense id: simple-self-evident-en-adj-tEmbpArI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with self-
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