Ob·vi·ous a.
1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]
To the evil turn
My obvious breast. --Milton.
2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] “Obvious to dispute.”
3. 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. --Pope.
Syn: -- Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest.
-- Ob*vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*vi*ous-ness, n.
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obviousness
n : the property of being easy to see and understand [syn: noticeability,
noticeableness, patency]