Definition of Obvious

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Obvious

Opposing; fronting.

Exposed; subject; open; liable.

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.

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Obvious Quotations

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

Obvious Translations

obvious in Dutch is kennelijk, evident, apert
obvious in Finnish is ilmeinen
obvious in Italian is ovvio, flagrante, distinto
obvious in Spanish is dilucido, visto

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