apparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpæɹ.ənt/
ipa: /əˈpæɹ.ənt/
ipa: /əˈpɛɹ.ənt/
Forms: form: more apparent
form: most apparent
Etymology: From Middle English apparaunt, aparaunt, from Old French aparent, aparant, in turn from Latin appārēns, appārentis, present participle of appāreō.
Senses: examples: text: […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
examples: text: Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
examples: text: 1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),
What George Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
text: To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.
ref: 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:
text: This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.
ref: 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, Aberration:
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
Synonyms: sense: easy to see
word: visible
sense: easy to see
word: conspicuous
sense: easy to see
word: distinct
sense: easy to see
word: plain
sense: easy to see
word: obvious
sense: easy to see
word: clear
sense: easy to see
word: eyely
sense: easy to understand
word: distinct
sense: easy to understand
word: plain
sense: easy to understand
word: obvious
sense: easy to understand
word: clear
sense: easy to understand
word: certain
sense: easy to understand
word: evident
sense: easy to understand
word: manifest
sense: easy to understand
word: indubitable
sense: easy to understand
word: notorious
sense: easy to understand
word: transparent
sense: seeming to be the case
word: illusory
sense: seeming to be the case
word: superficial
word: apparent
word: bare
word: displayed
word: exposed
word: unconcealed
Hypernyms: word: perceptible
Derived terms: apparency
apparent brightness
apparent charge
apparent death
apparent horizon
apparently
apparent magnitude
apparentness
apparent temperature
apparent time
heir apparent
heiress apparent
inapparent
nonapparent
subapparent
superapparent
unapparent
Related terms: apparition
apparitional
apparitionist
appear
appearance