Apparent

a.	1.	Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. The moon . . . apparent queen. - Milton.
	2.	Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. It is apparent foul play. - Shak.
	3.	Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. - Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. - Reid. Apparent horizon the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. Apparent time See Time. Heir apparent (Law) one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; - in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.
n.	1.	An heir apparent. I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown. - Shak.

Adj.	1.	apparent - clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view" Synonyms: evident, manifest, plain, patent
	2.	apparent - appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty" Synonyms: ostensible, seeming
	3.	apparent - readily apparent to the eye; "angry for no apparent reason"; "had no visible means of support"

APPARENT. That which is manifest what is proved. It is required that all things upon which a court must pass, should be made to appear, if matter in pays, under oath if matter of record, by the record. It is a rule that those things which do not appear, are to be considered as not existing de non apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio. Broom's Maxims, 20, What does not appear, does not exist; quod non apparet, non est.

Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparitional, appearing, autistic, beholdable, chimeric, clear as crystal, colorable, colored, conceivable, conspicuous, cortical, credible, crystal-clear, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, dreamlike, dreamy, epidermic, erroneous, exomorphic, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, exterior, external, extrinsic, factitious, fake, fallacious, false, fantastic, fringe, gilded, hanging out, illusional, illusionary, illusive, imaginary, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insight, marked, meretricious, misleading, naked, noticeable, observable, open, open to view, open-and-shut, out, outcropping, outer, outermost, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, patent, perceivable, perceptible, peripheral, perspicuous, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, plain as day, plausible, ponderable, prominent, pseudo, public, reasonable, recognizable, revealed, roundabout, seeable, self-deceptive, self-deluding, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sham, showing, specious, spectral, superficial, supposititious, surface, tangible, tinsel, to be seen, unactual, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal, unfounded, unhidden, unreal, unsubstantial, viewable, visionary, visual, witnessable

Definitions Index: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

About this site and copyright information - Online Dictionary Home - Privacy Policy