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obvious
- /ˈɑb.vi.əs/ US
- /ˈɑ.vi.əs/ US, informal
- /ˈɒ.vɪəs/ UK
- /ˈɒb.vɪəs/ UK
- /ˈɒv.jəs/ UK, informal
Where it comes from
16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) + -ous, from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”).
adjective more obvious · most obvious
- Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory. Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious 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. Aub
