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Apparent
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What's The Definition Of Apparent?
[adj] clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
[adj] readily apparent to the eye; "angry for no apparent reason"; "had no visible means of support" Synonyms | Synonyms for Apparent: evident | manifest | obvious | patent | plain | seeable | visible Related Terms | Find terms related to Apparent: airy | apparitional | appearing | autistic | Barmecidal | Barmecide | beholdable | chimeric | clear | clear as crystal | colorable | colored | conceivable | conspicuous | cortical | credible | crystal-clear | deceptive | delusional | delusionary | delusive | delusory | dereistic | detectable | discernible | disclosed | distinct | dreamlike | dreamy | epidermic | erroneous | evident | exomorphic | explicit | exposed | exposed to view | express | exterior | external | extrinsic | factitious | fake | fallacious | false | fantastic | fringe | gilded | hanging out | illusional | illusionary | illusive | illusory | imaginary | in evidence | in full view | in plain sight | in view | indisputable | indubitable | insight | manifest | marked | meretricious | misleading | naked | noticeable | observable | obvious | open | open to view | open-and-shut | ostensible | out | outcropping | outer | outermost | outlying | outmost | outside | outstanding | outward | outward-facing | palpable | patent | perceivable | perceptible | peripheral | perspicuous | phantasmagoric | phantasmal | phantom | plain | plain as day | plausible | ponderable | prominent | pseudo | public | reasonable | recognizable | revealed | roundabout | seeable | seeming | self-deceptive | self-deluding | self-evident | self-explaining | self-explanatory | sham | showing | specious | spectral | superficial | supposititious | surface | tangible | tinsel | to be seen | unactual | unambiguous | unclouded | unconcealed | undisguised | unequivocal | unfounded | unhidden | unmistakable | unreal | unsubstantial | viewable | visible | visionary | visual | witnessable See Also | Apparent In Webster's Dictionary \Ap*par"ent\, a. [F. apparent, L. apparens, -entis, p.
pr. of apparere. See {Appear}.]
1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view;
visible to the eye; within sight or view.
The moon . . . apparent queen. --Milton.
2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident;
obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
It is apparent foul play. --Shak.
3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not
necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the
apparent motion or diameter of the sun.
To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent
friendship. --Macaulay.
What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by
astronomers called apparent magnitude. --Reid.
{Apparent horizon}, the circle which in a level plain bounds
our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the
earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational
horizon.
{Apparent time}. See {Time}.
{Heir apparent} (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible
if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from
presumptive heir. See {Presumptive}.
Syn: Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain;
evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.
\Ap*par"ent\, n. An heir apparent. [Obs.] I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown. --Shak. |
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