apparent
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
apparent
- Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV,
- […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV,
- Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
- circa 1595–6 William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, ''Act IV, Scene 2,
- Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20
- When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.
- circa 1595–6 William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, ''Act IV, Scene 2,
- Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
- 1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),
- What George Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second,
- To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.
- 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, “Aberration”,
- This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.
- 1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),
- (easy to see) visible, distinct, plain, obvious, clear
- (easy to understand) distinct, plain, obvious, clear, certain, evident, manifest, indubitable, notorious, transparent
- (seeming to be the case) illusory, superficial
- French: apparent, visible
- German: offensichtlich
- Portuguese: visível
- Russian: ви́димый
- Spanish: visible
- French: manifeste, criant, évident
- German: offensichtlich
- Portuguese: evidente, claro, manifesto
- Russian: очеви́дный
- Spanish: claro, evidente, manifiesto
- French: apparent
- German: offenbar
- Portuguese: aparente
- Russian: ка́жущийся
- Spanish: aparente, ostensible
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