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obvious

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English

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"Water is wet" is a statement of the obvious.

Etymology

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16th century, fromLatinobvius(“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) +‎-ous, fromob-(“before”) +via(“way”).[1]

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Adjective

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obvious (comparativemoreobvious,superlativemostobvious)

  1. Easilydiscovered,seen, orunderstood;self-explanatory.
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter II, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not whollyobvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
    • 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, inRailway Magazine, number600, page224:
      During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler andmore 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.
    • 1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, inTrains Illustrated, page92:
      One of themost obvious results of the B.R. Modernisation Plan has been the increasing use of diesel and electric traction; a lessobvious by-product is the increase in track damage possible with the new forms of traction.
    • 2000, “3 Libras”, performed byA Perfect Circle:
      'Cause I threw you theobvious / to see what occurs behind / the eyes of a fallen angel / Eyes of a tragedy / Oh well, oh well / Apparently nothing / Apparently nothing at all
    • 2013 August 17, “Down towns”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8849:
      It is notobvious, 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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Collocations
  • 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

Translations

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easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory

References

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  1. ^William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “obvious”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC, page4070, column 1.

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