obviousadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈɒbvɪəs/, U.S.

/ˈɑbviəs/

Forms: 1500s–1600s obuious, 1600s– obvious.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin obvius , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin obvius presenting itself to the mind or senses, ready to hand, common, exposed or open (to), in the way ( < ob- ob- prefix + via way: see via n.) + -ous suffix.

A. adj.

a. Plain and evident to the mind; perfectly clear or manifest; plainly distinguishable; clearly visible.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective]

sutelc897

openeOE

ebera975

graithc1325

broadc1374

plainc1375

clearc1380

grossc1380

manifest1385

notoire1409

patent1508

sensible?1531

discovered1537

plain as a pikestaff (also packstaff, pad-staff)1542

palpable1545

demonstrative1552

plain as the nose on (in) one's face1560

illustrate1562

appearing1566

notorious1581

obvious1583

unshadowed1593

transparent1597

liquid1610

visible1614

pellucid1644

illustrious1654

apertive1661

conspectable1727

suggestive1806

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 85 The morning following, as they rid parling of such matters as were obuious, Senior Mondaldo..interrupted their talke with these words.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. xi. 105 My floore is not so flat, so fine, And has more obvious Rubs than thine.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. iii. §31. 56 Things present are obvious to the sense, things to come to our Reason only.

1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 26 Racked and wrested from its obvious meaning.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 72 The Hairs are more loose and the Pores more patulent and obvious.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 31/2 If you make it in Winter, it is obvious that the Frost will crack it.

1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) 89 It appears obvious to me, that one or the other of those two great men, that is, Mr. Pitt or Mr. Fox, must be Minister.

1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert I. 68 A small palisade, not obvious to the sight.

1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) II. viii. 491 His predecessors in this matter had neglected their obvious duty.

1872 H. C. Wood Contrib. Hist. Freshwater Algæ 227 The gelatinous tubes or sheaths in which the cells are seriated are very obvious.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xiv. 218 It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, ‘She loves young Emerson.’ A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious.

1934 M. F. K. Fisher As they Were (1982) 60 Timidity is obvious in more ways than my giving a false name to Laguna Beach, of course.

1991 Times 11 May 16/6 Magpies are thumpingly obvious birds, in their garish co-respondent livery.

2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) xx. 106 Lifting the edge of Lady Nafisa's skirt, Felix checked the dark bruises on her buttocks and lower thigh. ‘Obvious lividity.’

b. Lacking in subtlety, sophistication, or originality; banal, predictable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal

quotidian1430

trite1548

protrite1604

obvious1617

unbravea1681

prosaical1699

tritical1709

prosaic1729

hack1759

unstrikinga1774

commonplace1801

prosy1837

banal1840

mundane1850

unsensational1854

bromidic1906

corn-fed1929

corn-ball1970

1617 ‘Constantia Munda’ Worming of Mad Dogge 29 If thou getst a foule wife, thou shalt not have her common; if a faire, no torments... Tis but wasting paper to reckon vp these obuious sayings.

1781 H. Downman Mariamne iv. iv. 195 This theme is trite, and obvious.

1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate I. v. 101 A sort of pageant, where trite and obvious maxims are made to swagger in lofty and mystic language.

1904 G. B. Shaw Let. 6 Dec. (1972) II. 470 You will be stupended at all meanness in this obvious & cheap retort.

1943 A. Rand Fountainhead ii. xi. 350 The rest was a deliberate attempt to be obvious, vulgar and trite.

1990 Opera Now May 31/1 In musical terms, Henze has gone out of his way to avoid ‘any kind of chinoiserie or japonerie—that is too obvious, it would have been a real blunder’.

c. Natural, likely; such as common sense might suggest.

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1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 19 Let us take any of these Rules; which being the most obvious deductions of Humane Reason,..fewest People have had the Impudence to deny.

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xv. 282 A dew is often observed on the walls..in rainy weather, and the most obvious solution is that the rain has penetrated through these walls.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. x. 115 When a marriageable young woman urges matrimony upon an unencumbered young man, the most obvious explanation of her conduct is not the altruistic impulse.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes vi. 150 I should have thought, sir, that your obvious way was to advertise in the agony columns of the papers.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 26 Oct. 16/3 I decided the BBC was the obvious place to go if I wanted to learn more about teaching communication skills.

d. Law. Of an article, system, etc., for which a patent application is made: conceptually apparent, without substantial research, to any expert in the field (and hence not capable of being protected by a patent).

ΚΠ

1889 Rep. Patent, Design, & Trade Mark Cases 10 Apr. 189 The material question to be considered in a case like this is, whether the alleged discovery lies so much out of the track of what was known before as not naturally to suggest itself to a person thinking on the subject: it must not be the obvious or natural suggestion of what was previously known.

1932 Patents & Designs Act 22 & 23 Geo. V c. 32 s. 3 A patent may be revoked upon any of the following grounds..(f) that the invention is obvious and does not involve any inventive step having regard to what was known or used prior to the date of the patent.

1994 New Scientist 19 Feb. 13/3 To be patentable, an idea must be new, have a use, and must not be obvious to other experts in the field.

†2. Frequently met with or encountered; commonly occurring. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > [adjective]

commona1325

ofta1382

yedera1400

oftena1450

thick?c1450

repeated1577

obvious1586

crebrousc1600

frequent1604

thick and threefold1615

oftentime1876

oft-time1895

1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. B.iiii ^v The Latinists, which are of greatest fame and most obuious among vs.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 25 Suffer me..to tell you of a fish or 2, which in these seas were obvious.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 8 The next Quarry, or Chalk-pit..these are so ready and obvious in almost all places.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 201 Though your women were as obvious to my walks as yonder pavement.

†3. Situated in the way; positioned in front of or opposite to something; facing. Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > front > [adjective] > that lies or is placed in front

before-set1440

obvious1603

obversanta1754

forward1824

the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adjective] > facing

butting1447

obvious1603

frontier1609

abuttinga1616

confronting1710

1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars vi. c. 159 No more reioycing in the obuious light.

1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) i. sig. B4 They [sc. the horns of the bee] serue to giue warning in the darke..of any obuious thing quicke or dead that might offend her.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 131 As in a broken looking-glasse, every part will shew the shadow of that face which is obvious to it.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 3 Paris being obvious to him, and in his way to Spain, he delaid there one day.

1705 J. Philips Splendid Shilling 80 So her disembowell'd web Arachne..spreads, Obvious to vagrant flies.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 116 They strike In different lines the gazer's obvious eye.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. viii. 34 From her..The appellation of that star, which views Now obvious, and now averse, the sun.

†4. Exposed or open to (an action or influence); liable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > able or liable to be affected

subjectablea1382

subject1549

occurrent1566

obnoxious1572

prostitute1591

liable1593

incident1603

patible1603

susceptible1605

obvious1609

recipient1610

affectable1611

susceptive1637

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subjectiblea1732

vacant1751

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susceptible1883

impressionable1889

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) vi. cii. 169 Draw the chiefe reproche..On such as obuious vnto hatred are, Th'especiall men of State.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clx. 672 It renders the Native obvious to many discommodities.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 147 If your Garden be obvious to the cold windes.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 244. ⁋7 The Pendant is so obvious to Ridicule.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 54 She was artless and obvious to seduction.

B. n.

With the. The obvious thing; what is obvious. Frequently in to state the obvious.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [noun] > that which is manifest

obvious1879

1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. xi. 246 To abstain from any employment of the obvious, the percoct,..likewise..the overstrained.

1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm i. 10 Their steadfast gaze..had the effect of looking directly through the obvious to something beyond.

1966 N.Y. Post 3 Aug. 6/4 ‘It comes down to a very fine point,’ he said, stating the obvious in a nutshell.

1994 Amer. Spectator Sept. 60/2 Hobson can't think of what to say..other than to state the obvious.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	obvious
释义	obviousadj.n. Brit. /ˈɒbvɪəs/, U.S. /ˈɑbviəs/ Forms: 1500s–1600s obuious, 1600s– obvious. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin obvius , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin obvius presenting itself to the mind or senses, ready to hand, common, exposed or open (to), in the way ( < ob- ob- prefix + via way: see via n.) + -ous suffix. A. adj. 1. a. Plain and evident to the mind; perfectly clear or manifest; plainly distinguishable; clearly visible. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] sutelc897 openeOE ebera975 graithc1325 broadc1374 plainc1375 clearc1380 grossc1380 manifest1385 notoire1409 patent1508 sensible?1531 discovered1537 plain as a pikestaff (also packstaff, pad-staff)1542 palpable1545 demonstrative1552 plain as the nose on (in) one's face1560 illustrate1562 appearing1566 notorious1581 obvious1583 unshadowed1593 transparent1597 liquid1610 visible1614 pellucid1644 illustrious1654 apertive1661 conspectable1727 suggestive1806 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 85 The morning following, as they rid parling of such matters as were obuious, Senior Mondaldo..interrupted their talke with these words. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. xi. 105 My floore is not so flat, so fine, And has more obvious Rubs than thine. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. iii. §31. 56 Things present are obvious to the sense, things to come to our Reason only. 1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 26 Racked and wrested from its obvious meaning. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 72 The Hairs are more loose and the Pores more patulent and obvious. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 31/2 If you make it in Winter, it is obvious that the Frost will crack it. 1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) 89 It appears obvious to me, that one or the other of those two great men, that is, Mr. Pitt or Mr. Fox, must be Minister. 1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert I. 68 A small palisade, not obvious to the sight. 1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) II. viii. 491 His predecessors in this matter had neglected their obvious duty. 1872 H. C. Wood Contrib. Hist. Freshwater Algæ 227 The gelatinous tubes or sheaths in which the cells are seriated are very obvious. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xiv. 218 It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, ‘She loves young Emerson.’ A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. 1934 M. F. K. Fisher As they Were (1982) 60 Timidity is obvious in more ways than my giving a false name to Laguna Beach, of course. 1991 Times 11 May 16/6 Magpies are thumpingly obvious birds, in their garish co-respondent livery. 2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) xx. 106 Lifting the edge of Lady Nafisa's skirt, Felix checked the dark bruises on her buttocks and lower thigh. ‘Obvious lividity.’ b. Lacking in subtlety, sophistication, or originality; banal, predictable. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal quotidian1430 trite1548 protrite1604 obvious1617 unbravea1681 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 hack1759 unstrikinga1774 commonplace1801 prosy1837 banal1840 mundane1850 unsensational1854 bromidic1906 corn-fed1929 corn-ball1970 1617 ‘Constantia Munda’ Worming of Mad Dogge 29 If thou getst a foule wife, thou shalt not have her common; if a faire, no torments... Tis but wasting paper to reckon vp these obuious sayings. 1781 H. Downman Mariamne iv. iv. 195 This theme is trite, and obvious. 1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate I. v. 101 A sort of pageant, where trite and obvious maxims are made to swagger in lofty and mystic language. 1904 G. B. Shaw Let. 6 Dec. (1972) II. 470 You will be stupended at all meanness in this obvious & cheap retort. 1943 A. Rand Fountainhead ii. xi. 350 The rest was a deliberate attempt to be obvious, vulgar and trite. 1990 Opera Now May 31/1 In musical terms, Henze has gone out of his way to avoid ‘any kind of chinoiserie or japonerie—that is too obvious, it would have been a real blunder’. c. Natural, likely; such as common sense might suggest. ΚΠ 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 19 Let us take any of these Rules; which being the most obvious deductions of Humane Reason,..fewest People have had the Impudence to deny. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xv. 282 A dew is often observed on the walls..in rainy weather, and the most obvious solution is that the rain has penetrated through these walls. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. x. 115 When a marriageable young woman urges matrimony upon an unencumbered young man, the most obvious explanation of her conduct is not the altruistic impulse. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes vi. 150 I should have thought, sir, that your obvious way was to advertise in the agony columns of the papers. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 26 Oct. 16/3 I decided the BBC was the obvious place to go if I wanted to learn more about teaching communication skills. d. Law. Of an article, system, etc., for which a patent application is made: conceptually apparent, without substantial research, to any expert in the field (and hence not capable of being protected by a patent). ΚΠ 1889 Rep. Patent, Design, & Trade Mark Cases 10 Apr. 189 The material question to be considered in a case like this is, whether the alleged discovery lies so much out of the track of what was known before as not naturally to suggest itself to a person thinking on the subject: it must not be the obvious or natural suggestion of what was previously known. 1932 Patents & Designs Act 22 & 23 Geo. V c. 32 s. 3 A patent may be revoked upon any of the following grounds..(f) that the invention is obvious and does not involve any inventive step having regard to what was known or used prior to the date of the patent. 1994 New Scientist 19 Feb. 13/3 To be patentable, an idea must be new, have a use, and must not be obvious to other experts in the field. †2. Frequently met with or encountered; commonly occurring. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] commona1325 ofta1382 yedera1400 oftena1450 thick?c1450 repeated1577 obvious1586 crebrousc1600 frequent1604 thick and threefold1615 oftentime1876 oft-time1895 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. B.iiii ^v The Latinists, which are of greatest fame and most obuious among vs. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 25 Suffer me..to tell you of a fish or 2, which in these seas were obvious. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 8 The next Quarry, or Chalk-pit..these are so ready and obvious in almost all places. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 201 Though your women were as obvious to my walks as yonder pavement. †3. Situated in the way; positioned in front of or opposite to something; facing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > front > [adjective] > that lies or is placed in front before-set1440 obvious1603 obversanta1754 forward1824 the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adjective] > facing butting1447 obvious1603 frontier1609 abuttinga1616 confronting1710 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars vi. c. 159 No more reioycing in the obuious light. 1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) i. sig. B4 They [sc. the horns of the bee] serue to giue warning in the darke..of any obuious thing quicke or dead that might offend her. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 131 As in a broken looking-glasse, every part will shew the shadow of that face which is obvious to it. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 3 Paris being obvious to him, and in his way to Spain, he delaid there one day. 1705 J. Philips Splendid Shilling 80 So her disembowell'd web Arachne..spreads, Obvious to vagrant flies. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 116 They strike In different lines the gazer's obvious eye. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. viii. 34 From her..The appellation of that star, which views Now obvious, and now averse, the sun. †4. Exposed or open to (an action or influence); liable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > able or liable to be affected subjectablea1382 subject1549 occurrent1566 obnoxious1572 prostitute1591 liable1593 incident1603 patible1603 susceptible1605 obvious1609 recipient1610 affectable1611 susceptive1637 receptivea1676 ticklish1681 subjectiblea1732 vacant1751 timid1764 susceptible1883 impressionable1889 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) vi. cii. 169 Draw the chiefe reproche..On such as obuious vnto hatred are, Th'especiall men of State. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clx. 672 It renders the Native obvious to many discommodities. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 147 If your Garden be obvious to the cold windes. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 244. ⁋7 The Pendant is so obvious to Ridicule. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 54 She was artless and obvious to seduction. B. n. With the. The obvious thing; what is obvious. Frequently in to state the obvious. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [noun] > that which is manifest obvious1879 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. xi. 246 To abstain from any employment of the obvious, the percoct,..likewise..the overstrained. 1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm i. 10 Their steadfast gaze..had the effect of looking directly through the obvious to something beyond. 1966 N.Y. Post 3 Aug. 6/4 ‘It comes down to a very fine point,’ he said, stating the obvious in a nutshell. 1994 Amer. Spectator Sept. 60/2 Hobson can't think of what to say..other than to state the obvious. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1583
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