If something is evident, you notice it easily and clearly.
His footprints were clearly evident in the heavy dust.
The threat of inflation is already evident in bond prices.
...the best-publicised cases of evident injustice.
2. adjective
You use evident to show that you are certain about a situation or fact and your interpretation of it.
[emphasis]
It was evident that she had once been a beauty.
The cities are bombarded day after day in an evident effort to force their surrender.
3. See also self-evident
More Synonyms of evident
evident in British English
(ˈɛvɪdənt)
adjective
easy to see or understand; readily apparent
Word origin
C14: from Latin ēvidēns, from vidēre to see
evident in American English
(ˈɛvədənt; ˈɛvəˌdɛnt)
adjective
easy to see or perceive; clear; obvious; plain
SYNONYMY NOTE: evident, apparent apply to that which can be readily perceived or easily inferred, but , evident implies the existence of external signs [his evident disappointment] and apparent suggests the use of deductive reasoning [it's apparent he'll win]; manifest applies to that which is immediately, often intuitively, clear to the understanding;, obvious refers to that which is so noticeable or obtrusive that no one can fail to perceiveit; , palpable applies esp. to that which can be perceived through some sense other than that ofsight [palpable signs of fever]; clear implies that there is no confusion or obscurity to hinder understanding [clear proof]; plain1 implies such simplicity or lack of complexity as to be easily perceptible [the plain facts are these]
Word origin
ME < OFr < L evidens (gen. evidentis): see evidence
Examples of 'evident' in a sentence
evident
But the virtues are also evident: the desire to entertain while teasing our brains and the ability to show how politics is intertwined with all our relationships.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
What is already evident is how much they relish the opportunity to be pushed.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This is particularly evident in the footballing world.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Whether the gentlemen were agreeable to each other was less evident.
George Eliot Daniel Deronda (1876)
There is also an evident campaign to protect existing services.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
You can see the pain is still evident beneath the surface when they talk about what happened.
The Sun (2009)
Their eye for design is clearly evident.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The facts now evident on the ground suggest an entirely different assessment.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Toulon scored their first try when their superiority was already evident.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
These disagreements are particularly evident in book reviews.
Marius, Richard A Short Guide to Writing About History (1995)
Do you know of any languages where it is less evident?
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
The impact of these changes has been increasingly evident.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The critical mass was also evident in the thunderous singing.
Christianity Today (2000)
His hunger and love for the game are still evident to me.
The Sun (2014)
This mood was already evident before the financial crisis.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
These are particularly evident in rural areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was during these years that his genuine understanding of trade unions became increasingly evident.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
That difference is also evident inside the ropes.
The Sun (2011)
But his ability was no less evident in his understanding of the literature they were attempting to preserve.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The pressure to fill spaces through clearing is further evident by the fact that certain universities are dropping grade boundaries.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Key tenets of the England game that had evaded them eight days ago were evident in abundance.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Twelve months on, we are disappointed that such concrete action is still not evident.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
evident
British English: evident ADJECTIVE
If something is evident, you notice it easily and clearly.
His footprints were clearly evident in the heavy dust.
American English: evident
Brazilian Portuguese: evidente
Chinese: 清晰易见的
European Spanish: evidente
French: évident
German: offensichtlich
Italian: evidente
Japanese: はっきり分かる
Korean: 뚜렷한
European Portuguese: evidente
Latin American Spanish: evidente
Chinese translation of 'evident'
evident
(ˈɛvɪdnt)
adj
明显(顯)的 (míngxiǎn de)
to be evident (to sb/that ... )(对(對)某人来(來)说(說)/ ... )显(顯)而易见(見) ((duì mǒurén láishuō/ ... ) xiǎn ér yì jiàn)
(adjective)
Definition
easy to see or understand
He spoke with evident emotion about his ordeal.
Synonyms
obvious
It's obvious that he doesn't like me.
clear
It was a clear case of mistaken identity.
plain
It was plain to me that he was lying.
apparent
The presence of a star is already apparent in the early film.
visible
The meadows are hardly visible from the house.
a visible effort to control himself
patent
This was a patent lie.
manifest
cases of manifest injustice
tangible
There is tangible evidence that the economy is starting to recover.
noticeable
These changes have had no noticeable effect on productivity.
blatant
blatant elitism
conspicuous
Her conspicuous lack of warmth confirmed that they were no longer friends.
unmistakable
the unmistakable aroma of freshly ground coffee
palpable
The tension between them is palpable.
salient
indisputable
It is indisputable that the animals are harbouring this illness.
perceptible
There was a perceptible silence, momentary but definite.