Definitions for obvious
ˈɒb vi əsob·vi·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. obviousadjective

   easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind

   "obvious errors"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. obviousadjective

   Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

2. Etymology: From obvius, from ob- + via.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. OBVIOUSadjective

   Etymology: obvius, Latin.

   1. Meeting any thing; opposed in front to any thing.

   To the evil turn
   My obvious breast; arming to overcome
   By suffering, and earn rest from labour won. John Milton.

   2. Open; exposed.

   Whether such room in nature unpossest
   Only to shine, yet scarce to contribute
   Each orb a glimpse of light, convey’d so far
   Down to this habitable, which returns
   Light back to them, is obvious to dispute. John Milton.

   3. Easily discovered; plain; evident; easily found.

   Why was the sight
   To such a tender ball as th’ eye confin’d,
   So obvious and so easy to be quench’d? John Milton.

   Entertain’d with solitude,
   Where obvious duty ere while appear’d unsought. John Milton.

   They are such lights as are only obvious to every man of sense, who loves poetry and understands it. Dryden.

   I am apt to think many words difficult or obscure, which are obvious to scholars. Jonathan Swift.

   These sentiments, whether they be impressed on the soul, or arise as obvious reflections of our reason, I call natural, because they have been found in all ages. John Rogers.

   All the great lines of our duty are clear and obvious; the extent of it understood, the obligation acknowledged, and the wisdom of complying with it freely confessed. John Rogers.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Obvious

   Obvious is the third single to be released from the American R&B singer LeToyas debut album LeToya. According to Billboard, due to LeToya's popularity and feedback from radio, the single had a 96% chance of becoming a hit, but due to the fusing of Capitol Records and Virgin Records, all funding for the album were frozen until the completion of the merger. In addition to LeToya, the merger affected other Capitol and Virgin Records artist such as Janet Jackson, Chingy, and Cherish, resulting in their respective singles getting no accompanying video or promotion.

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1. obvious

   Obvious is an adjective referring to something that is easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent. It implies that the facts, truth, or clarity of something is immediately recognizable and leaves no room for doubt or confusion.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Obviousadjective

   opposing; fronting

2. Obviousadjective

   exposed; subject; open; liable

3. Obviousadjective

   easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Obvious

   "Obvious" is the third single to be released from the American R&B singer LeToya's debut album LeToya. According to Billboard, due to LeToya's popularity and feedback from radio, the single had a 96% chance of becoming a hit, but due to the fusing of Capitol Records and Virgin Records, all funding for the album were frozen until the completion of the merger. In addition to LeToya, the merger affected other Capitol and Virgin Records artist such as Janet Jackson, Chingy, and Cherish, resulting in their respective singles getting no accompanying video or promotion.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Obvious

   ob′vi-us, adj. meeting one in the way: easily discovered or understood: evident.—adv. Ob′viously.—n. Ob′viousness. [L. obvius.]

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Obvious

   The Obvious Corporation creates technology systems to facilitate the process of collaboration between people to improve the world. Obvious believes that technology has the power to affect individuals, organizations, and society if implemented the right way. After creating Twitter and Odeo, Obvious is being relaunched to bring the world more products that matter.Obvious Corp. was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'obvious' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1193

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'obvious' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1536

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'obvious' in Adjectives Frequency: #146

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce obvious?

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How to say obvious in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of obvious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of obvious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of obvious in a Sentence

1. Romain Sabathier:

   We cannot accept such obvious inequalities in positions of power anymore.

2. Leo Tolstoy:

   I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

3. Duncan Clark:

   Southeast Asia has a lot of overlap with China in terms of consumer habits, intra-regional trade and tastes, rocket in this case has managed to create a successful, multi-market player in a region which needs scale and breadth to be viable. This has obvious appeal to Alibaba.

4. Donald Trump:

   West Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's government, west Jerusalem is the home of the Israeli legislature and the Israeli supreme court and Israel's Prime Minister and President. Israel is a sovereign nation with the right to determine its own capital, yet for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious, the plain reality that West Jerusalem is West Jerusalem.

5. Herbert Simon, economist:

   What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=obvious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Obvious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=obvious
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obvious
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obvious
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=obvious
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=obvious
9. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/obvious
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=obvious