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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
evident
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
obvious/evident (=easy to see)
▪ Spencer was staring at the girl with obvious delight.
painfully obvious/clear/evident/apparent
▪ It was painfully obvious he’d rather not see her again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ The consequent inconsistencies and contradictions are already evident, and intensifying.
▪ It is already evident that new roads only generate new traffic, and the environmental impact is an absolute disaster.
also
▪ The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils.
▪ But it was also evident in food and religion, language and art.
▪ Weak cleavage is also evident at the ApC steps.
▪ This greater discretion was also evident in the establishment of the administrative and decisionmaking process.
▪ It is also evident from the available data that these differences have narrowed over the years.
▪ What makes this swamp-inspired inflection even more interesting is that the traditional cuisine of the Southwest is also evident.
▪ Continuity is also evident in the behaviour of the two major political parties.
▪ Mill's influence on pragmatism is also evident.
as
▪ Borrowing is as evident in Anaximandros as in Thales.
▪ The change at Wroxeter is as evident as on the Wall, although in a purely civil context.
clearly
▪ The principle of the separation of powers is, for example, clearly evident in his views on administrative law.
▪ In spite of their burdens, endearing qualities are often clearly evident.
▪ Saline alluvial soils have high levels of exchangeable sodium and the effects of gleying are clearly evident.
▪ The change of focus is clearly evident.
▪ The need for reregulation superimposed upon any underlying tendency towards competitive freedom is clearly evident.
▪ Some of these symptoms may be so extreme that the psychotic quality of the condition is clearly evident.
▪ Normally the trainer will go through a reproduced interview and discuss the good and bad points which are usually clearly evident.
▪ However falteringly, the Precautionary Principle is clearly evident in many of the decisions now being taken.
especially
▪ Indeed the whole Disney philosophy, especially evident in the Epcot Centre, is about optimism and faith in the future.
▪ This movement has been especially evident under the pressure of economic conditions in an increasingly corporate market.
▪ This is especially evident in prototype fabrication and die development.
immediately
▪ That, however, was not immediately evident on a map.
▪ Out on the floor, it is immediately evident what kind of a game this will be.
▪ His precocious skill is immediately evident in the Piano Trio Suite Op. 8, which he wrote in his late teens.
▪ The difficulties of pursuing such a methodology are immediately evident.
▪ Steve's power became immediately evident, as if some one had turned on a motor, and we started to move.
▪ Awareness, too, that there is a purpose which exists in all situations, even if that purpose is not immediately evident.
increasingly
▪ Poverty is widespread and malnutrition is becoming increasingly evident among children and young people.
▪ Parents often speak of the importance of identifying the normal features of their child, which become increasingly evident as he grows.
▪ Changing relationships: the 1980s During the 1970s and 1980s overt tensions in central-local relationships became increasingly evident.
▪ As the problem of insider trading increased it became increasingly evident that s.16 was insufficient.
▪ Its excesses had already degenerated into the sacrifice of living beings and its Chaotic nature was increasingly evident.
▪ It is becoming increasingly evident that the traditional scientific approach to determining reality has run its course.
less
▪ Phoenix schedules for General and Special Psychology were included, and examples of Western bias were less evident.
▪ The poetry of scientific myth appears less evident to some people than it does to others.
▪ Above these levels, such correlations are less evident and over-ridden by a correlation with topography.
▪ But the improvement in the position of the masses was far less evident than the increase in industrial and mercantile wealth.
▪ Her duties as a chaperone had become less evident now that she was accustomed to Paul and had been spoken to kindly.
▪ The energy of New Hampshire was less evident.
▪ This chapter has offered a summary of what is more or less evident when one looks at teachers' lives today.
▪ In the work on tragedy done before Wagner's Beethoven Schopenhauer's influence is less evident.
more
▪ Nowhere are such tensions more evident than in Berlin.
▪ I see three important constituent elements of the digital realm becoming more evident every day: malleability, anonymity and connectivity.
▪ Some are nothing more than ethereal vapours, others are more powerful, more evident.
▪ Not many more offer Arabic, whose crucial importance is even more evident.
▪ What was also becoming more evident was something that one of the experts had pointed out.
▪ The importance of Spacewatch and other asteroid search programs becomes more evident as we learn more about the impact hazard.
▪ As time passed, his reduced circumstances became more and more evident.
▪ If tonalities are not closely related the tonal conflict will be more evident according to the degree of disagreement between the scales.
most
▪ The most evident shift in the terms of debate in Britain concerns the focus and nature of growth.
▪ Apart from the family, the classroom is the most evident microcosm of society that young people experience.
▪ This is most evident in those provisions relating to the policing of static assemblies and marches and processions.
▪ Steel's might was most evident during the war years.
▪ Crohn's disease is commonly associated with undernutrition, which is often most evident when the disease is active.
▪ The pentecostal growth is most evident among the poorer communities.
▪ Change, in industry, commerce, and agriculture, was most evident and most rapid in the periphery.
▪ The problems are most evident when tariffs have been cut without adjusting other macro-economic policies.
particularly
▪ This shift was particularly evident in Hoffmann's pavilion designed for the Secession's 1908 Kunstschau.
▪ This is particularly evident in the primary grades. 16.
▪ This is particularly evident around Somerton, but can also be seen in the Bath area.
▪ This weakness is particularly evident early in the book, but it fortunately gives way when the pace quickens.
▪ Such ambiguities and variations are particularly evident in New Right discourses but can also be found in popular culture.
▪ The social context of the workplace was particularly evident from interviews the Hawthorne researchers conducted with supervisors.
▪ This is particularly evident in relation to nuclear weapons.
▪ This is particularly evident where funding to agencies depends on clients served.
quite
▪ In retrospect it is quite evident that this was a doomed endeavour.
▪ Change was quite evident from 1945 to 1947.
▪ Its orange colour is quite evident with the naked eye, and striking in binoculars.
▪ What is quite evident is that Brown is close to becoming an ex-Raider.
▪ A comparative analysis of course documents made the extent and systematic nature of the changes quite evident.
▪ In fact, in the Brixton gang trial, the racial and class overtones of the case were often quite evident.
so
▪ This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women.
▪ Balanced it was not, with acidic undertones so evident that it was hard to swallow.
▪ Suburban moderation cuts across the religious and ethnic lines so evident in the census and election returns.
▪ The Romantic plays increase the interrogations, apostrophes, abrupt interruptions, exclamations and leaders that were so evident in sentimental comedy.
▪ This is so evident that it does not require illustration.
▪ The financial aspect of a job is so evident that people underestimate its psychological function.
▪ There is industry too, though this is not so evident.
▪ The lightheartedness so evident in the three letters I have that she had written from Phoenix was gone.
still
▪ That was four weeks ago but it is still evident.
▪ This is still evident in the latest policy developments and debates.
▪ The next moment he was climbing from the bed, the ferocity of his passion still evident on him.
▪ The surrounding countryside is quite dramatic with the legacy of the vast lead mining industry still evident.
▪ The wise hand of Philip Allen was still evident.
too
▪ In this case, I can't say my own self-confidence was too evident.
▪ Meanwhile, the political difficulties in the way of Reddy's plan are only too evident.
▪ Consumerism has all too evident limits.
▪ The linkage between the columns and the rounds would have been too evident.
▪ Empirical justification for this gloomy remark is all too evident in Chapters 2 and 3.
very
▪ Its success was very evident and I would hope to keep it as a regular feature of the conference.
▪ It is a very evident problem.
▪ With the naked eye, the colour-difference is very evident, and binoculars bring it out splendidly.
▪ It was very evident that there were no supplies or spare parts available.
▪ That much was very evident to Maggie.
▪ He reported that the effects of the drop in water temperature were very evident.
▪ Their cannon were very evident, as they closed, crews lining the bulwarks.
▪ Arguments of this kind are very evident in discussions about how parents' associations should respond to education cuts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carlos' frustration was evident in his comments.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even more evident has been the growth of a new class of wealth.
▪ His belief in divine aid was evident to all.
▪ It could now become evident that she had a good figure.
▪ It is evident that the machine aesthetic played more than just a stylistic part in the revolution.
▪ Neither Hoffert nor Lembke replied, but their pride was evident.
▪ Whether we choose to focus on military security or protection of the environment, the policy relevance of our research is evident.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evident

Evident \Ev"i*dent\, a. [F. ['e]vinent, l. evidens, -entis; e out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See Vision.] Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

Your honor and your goodness is so evident.
--Shak.

And in our faces evident the signs Of foul concupiscence.
--Milton.

Syn: Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent; conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See Manifest.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evident

late 14c., from Old French evident and directly from Latin evidentem (nominative evidens) "perceptible, clear, obvious, apparent" from ex- "fully, out of" (see ex-) + videntem (nominative videns), present participle of videre "to see" (see vision).

Wiktionary
evident

a. obviously true by simple observation.

WordNet
evident
  1. 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" [syn: apparent, manifest, patent, plain]

  2. capable of being seen or noticed; "a discernible change in attitude"; "a clearly evident erasure in the manuscript"; "an observable change in behavior" [syn: discernible, observable]

Usage examples of "evident".

Now it is evident that in Penance something is done so that something holy is signified both on the part of the penitent sinner, and on the part of the priest absolving, because the penitent sinner, by deed and word, shows his heart to have renounced sin, and in like manner the priest, by his deed and word with regard to the penitent, signifies the work of God Who forgives his sins.

By comparing many different hairs, it was evident that the glands first absorb the carbonate, and that the effect thus produced travels down the hairs from cell to cell.

These questions still interested him, but the flavor of academicism which informed them in the face of the coming catastrophe was becoming more and more evident even to him.

It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his remarks at him, though without looking at him.

Julia relied upon him to deliver it, and her conduct towards the Alcalde had the evident object of gaining time for him to do so.

And a powerful Adept as well that much was evident from the signs all over him that pointed to constant manipulations of mage-energy on a scale Ancar had only dreamed of.

The conjunction of the apocalyptic and the ordinary may be most evident in the character of Murray J.

In spite of the evident need to pursue the Italians along the Libyan coast while the going is good, we shall have to consider the dispatch of four or five more squadrons of the Royal Air Force to Greece, and possibly the diversion of part of the 2d British Armoured Division.

The robber that accosted Brother Francis was not in any obvious way one of the malformed, but that he came from the Valley of the Misborn was made evident when two hooded figures arose from behind a tangle of brush on the slope that overlooked the trail and hooted mockingly at the monk from ambush, while aiming at him with drawn bows.

Passion wrought its effect of salvation first of all among the Jews, very many of whom were baptized in His death, as is evident from Acts 2:41 and Acts 4:4.

She looked at me with evident surprise for a moment, then she turned towards her friend, and both began to laugh immoderately.

Mardocheus said he should like to die too, and began regaling himself on it with evident relish.

But their reluctance was not too strong, and it was evident in a subtle way that Boke would win their aid.

After the danger of the boson became evident, the house, then the surrounding houses, then a good part of the town, had been evacuated.

From what Margaret had testified, it was evident that Dana Brye, if actually alive, would logically be the Vindicator.