Definition of Apparent

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Apparent

Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.

Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.

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.

An heir apparent.

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Apparent Quotations

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
Meryl Streep

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
Shia LaBeouf

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Thomas Szasz

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike

Apparent Translations

apparent in Dutch is aanwijsbaar, vertoonbaar
apparent in French is apparent
apparent in German is offenbar, anscheinend, scheinbar
apparent in Italian is evidente, in apparenza
apparent in Latin is promptus
apparent in Norwegian is tydelig
apparent in Portuguese is aparente
apparent in Spanish is demostrable, aparente, manifiesto, visto
apparent in Swedish is tydligt

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