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Apparent

//əˈpæɹ.ənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.

    "[…] 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."

  2. 2
    Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.

    "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."

  3. 3
    Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment wordnet
  2. 2
    appearing as such but not necessarily so wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English apparaunt, aparaunt, from Old French aparent, aparant, in turn from Latin appārēns, appārentis, present participle of appāreō.

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