Thesaurus:obvious
English
Adjective
Sense: easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory
Synonyms
- apparent [⇒ thesaurus]
- arrant
- undoubted
- glaring
- bait (MLE)
- blatant
- clear
- clear as a bell
- clear as day
- clear cut (idiomatic)
- crystal clear
- cut and dried (idiomatic)
- decided
- elucidate (obsolete)
- evident
- eyely (archaic)
- intuitive
- manifest
- notable [⇒ thesaurus] (dated)
- noticeable
- obvious
- open-and-shut
- ostensible
- palpable
- patent
- plain
- plain as a haystack
- plain as a pikestaff
- plain as day
- plain as Dunstable highway
- plain as porridge
- plain as print
- plain as Salisbury
- plain as the nose on one's face
- prima facie (legal)
- res ipsa loquitur
- straightforward
- undissembled
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Further reading
- “525. manifestation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “obvious” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.