OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 9132

apparent

/əˈpæɹ.ənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
visible
Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
Her disappointment was apparent to everyone.
[…] 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 he…
claro • evidente • manifiesto
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.
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 receiv…
aparencial • aparente • apariencial • ostensible
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…
To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.