evident
adjUK /ˈɛv.ɪ.dənt/ · US /ˈɛv.ə.dənt/
Etymology From Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.
1
Obviously true by simple observation.
- It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
- The full extent of her injuries did not become evident until they tried to move her.
1 more example
- Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- evidently, evidentness, inevident, nonevident, self-evident, superevident, tamper-evident, unevident
- Related terms
- evidence, evidential