evident
pronunciation
How to pronounce evident in British English:
UK [ˈevɪdənt]
How to pronounce evident in American English:
US [ˈevɪdənt]
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- Adjective:
- clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses
- capable of being seen or noticed
Word Origin
- evident
- evident: [14] Something that is evident is literally something that can be ‘seen’. The word comes via Old French from Latin ēvidēns ‘clear, obvious’, a compound formed from the intensive prefix ex- and the present participle of videre ‘see’ (source of English vision). The Latin derivative ēvidentia (from which English gets evidence [13]) meant originally ‘distinction’ and later ‘proof’, basis of the main current sense of evidence, ‘testimony which establishes the facts’.=> view, vision
- evident (adj.)
- 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).
Example
- 1. Most of these troubles are evident in india .
- 2. It would be foolish to ignore those evident risks .
- 3. Thus far , no such statistical curve has been evident for brain cancer .
- 4. This is evident in the second site I visit .
- 5. Some specific moves from hubris to humility are already evident .