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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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... to pace up and down the patio, and, as he did so, he questioned the new disciples as to their trade, their birthplace, and their parents. To this Rincon replied, "Our trade is sufficiently obvious, since we are here before your worship; as to our country, it does not appear to me essential to the matter in hand that we should declare it, any more than the names of our parents, since we are not now stating our qualifications for admission into ...

— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... 1864 wore towards its close, military events manifestly approached a climax. In 1861 the two armies were comparatively green. For obvious reasons the advantage was on the side of the South. The South had so long been in substantial control at Washington that they had the majority of the generals, they had nearly all the arms and ammunition, and, since they had planned the coming conflict, their militia were in the main in ...

— The Life of Abraham Lincoln • Henry Ketcham

... was no mention of the cache in the tules. The reporters, spilled out in the damp discomfort of the county seat, were filling their columns with anything they could scrape together, but it was still too early for them to have scraped more than the obvious, surface facts. Mayer would have to wait. As he sat at the table, picking at his breakfast, his mind darkly disturbed, he wondered if he had not better get out, and then called himself a fool. He was secure, absolutely secure. The man of the two who had had some capacity had escaped, ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... his diversions in the Parc-aux-Cerfs, daily restored his vigor by bathing in the blood of young children; and parents of the absentees began to manifest a double dissatisfaction, for the deduction was obvious. ...

— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell

... central point of everything, from which everything is equally distant, and to which everything is equally near. By the square he is to learn that God made everything equal. The drift of these symbolic explanations is obvious. ...

— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly

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