'apparent' definitions:
Definition of 'apparent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "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" [syn: apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable]
adjective
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" [syn: apparent(a), ostensible, seeming(a)]
Synonyms of 'apparent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- apparitional,
- appearing,
- autistic,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- beholdable,
- chimeric,
- clear,
- 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,
- evident,
- exomorphic,
- explicit,
- exposed,
- exposed to view,
- express,
- exterior,
- external,
- extrinsic,
- factitious,
- fake,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- fringe,
- gilded,
- hanging out,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- in evidence,
- in full view,
- in plain sight,
- in view,
- indisputable,
- indubitable,
- insight,
- manifest,
- marked,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- naked,
- noticeable,
- observable,
- obvious,
- open,
- open to view,
- open-and-shut,
- ostensible,
- out,
- outcropping,
- outer,
- outermost,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward-facing,
- palpable,
- patent,
- perceivable,
- perceptible,
- peripheral,
- perspicuous,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- plain,
- plain as day,
- plausible,
- ponderable,
- prominent,
- pseudo,
- public,
- reasonable,
- recognizable,
- revealed,
- roundabout,
- seeable,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- self-evident,
- self-explaining,
- self-explanatory,
- sham,
- showing,
- specious,
- spectral,
- superficial,
- supposititious,
- surface,
- tangible,
- tinsel,
- to be seen,
- unactual,
- unambiguous,
- unclouded,
- unconcealed,
- undisguised,
- unequivocal,
- unfounded,
- unhidden,
- unmistakable,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- viewable,
- visible,
- visionary,
- visual,
- witnessable