Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily perceived or understood; obvious. synonym: apparent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Plainly seen or perceived; manifest; obvious; plain: as, an evident mistake; it is evident that he took the wrong path.
- Clearly discernible or distinguishable; certain; indubitable: as, in entomology, an evident scutellum (that is, one well developed, or not concealed by other parts).
- Furnishing evidence; conclusive.
- Synonyms Clear, Plain, etc. (see
manifest , a.); palpable, patent, unmistakable. See list underapparent . - noun Something which serves as evidence; evidence; specifically, in Scots law, a writ or title-deed by which property is proved: a term used in conveyancing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment
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- adjective
Obviously true by simpleobservation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being seen or noticed
- adjective clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
Etymologies
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Examples
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These are rather more extreme examples but 1 fact is clearly evident from the divergence of their underlying value at the time of their downfall and their reflected stock price ... key-insider information was restricted by a select few who profited and violated the Strong-Form EMH.
Resisting Efficient Markets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Avatar, its fairly evident, is just such a project.
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It's evident from the Stewart rally that we are a country of aspiring comedians and witty sign-makers.
Shaun Johnson: Can Social Studies Deliver Us from Insanity? Shaun Johnson 2010
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The capabalities of an average engineer in India is evident from the fact that many Product companies like
Indian Labor Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Recognizing such behaviours that often result in evident self-harm (or refusal of care), is one of the few true frustrations that I experience in working with patients, often leaving me no option but to refer them for psychological or psychiatric assessment and management.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession 2009
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Firebird is set in Kansas, but, as is evident from the number of sales to foreign publishers, it has an international appeal.
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What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results.
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This attitude was not taken in earlier years however, as is evident from the following statement made by Committee Chairman Arne Westgren, in a survey over the first 60 years of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Pretty Good Climategate Summary 2009
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Consequently, NIPA profits have been far less subject to the spin evident in reports to shareholders in recent years.
The 1990's Bubble Economy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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