[ adj ] easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind <adj.all> obvious errors
Obvious \Ob"vi*ous\, a. [L. obvius; ob (see {Ob-}) + via way. See {Voyage}.] 1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]
To the evil turn My obvious breast. --Milton.
2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] ``Obvious to dispute.'' --Milton.
3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. --Pope.
Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See {Manifest}. ※ -- {Ob"vi*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob"vi*ous-ness}, n.
As the government still wants to sell its 40 per cent stakes in both companies, it has an obvious incentive to find an acceptable solution before the market's insouciance fades.
However, Mr. McNamee emphasizes that public investors shouldn't have to undo the debt Black Box incurred two years ago by "the unrealistic assumptions" of the LBO investors. "It's obvious the original LBO was structurally flawed," he says.
Suddenly, Gephardt became an obvious choice.
Although there are obvious winners, there are also losers.
This fundamental difference, almost too obvious to mention, gets lost when experts start examining the Soviet Union with a microscope to study perceived changes and prescribe Western responses.
The challenge here is obvious: If the public is going to pay its officials more money, how does it make sure that it gets its money's worth?
He is a pugnacious performer in the Commons. But his weaknesses are as obvious as his strengths.
Khovik Vasilyan, an Armenian activist, said the strike call had no obvious effect in Yerevan today.
With the Treasury strapped for cash, the subsidy will have to come from consumers. Since public opposition forced the coal review, the government may be tempted to make the costs as obvious as possible through a direct levy.
Not all of this, of course, feeds through the Seattle region: Portland tends to lead where grain and car shipments are concerned, and Vancouver is the obvious entry-exit point for Canada.
So now what is called for is an imaginative choice of chairman. Among those already on the board, one obvious candidate would be deputy chairman Herschel Post, an American so anglicised that a fellow board member had no idea Post was not English.
But American observers said that the opposition candidate, Guillermo Endara, actually won and the vote fraud that was taking place was all too obvious, thus causing Noriega to call off the farce.
Whatever the outcome of probes by the ethics panel and the House Banking Committee, the political jeopardy for Riegle is obvious.
Without doubt the most intractable issue is electoral reform, because of its impact on the composition of the Commons, and thus of governments. Nonetheless, three lesser reforms have obvious merit.
The 5 per cent rise in Kleinwort Benson's shares yesterday is an obvious mark of relief at its lower provisions.
But what about the obvious wrestling/sweat connection?
Some leered and shook their heads in disbelief at what they saw, but many others gazed with obvious appreciation at the works.
And I think you need to be a brave company to take that decision,' he said. For Ainley, the assessments presented an obvious solution to a problem.
But the most obvious candidates - such as P&O - have their own problems and are unlikely to approach TDG for a while yet.
One obvious route is to make tyres last longer, resulting in fewer tyres being produced.
What used to be obvious has become, in the postwar revisionist fog, something of a dirty little secret: Most of the Americans who were in Vietnam weren't in the Vietnam War.
Frequently they apply only to one or two member states, sometimes to a specific industry. The most obvious example is the 'transitional' system for collection and administration of value added tax (VAT).
The U.S. interest in Mexican prosperity should be obvious. A Mexican employed at home won't sneak by night over the Rio Grande.
Most obvious is the prospect of a fat fee.
Given their own experience, devaluation looks an obvious policy option; but a sharp move - certainly one which put the Irish punt at a premium to the pound - would put them in a painful dilemma.
Long-term indicators of stress persist: rising crime, homelessness, deficient public transport and poor state schools are the most obvious.
"These guys simply don't retire to condos over the Euphrates." Despite the lack of any obvious successors, the Iraqi leader's internal power base appeared to be narrowing even before the war began.
There was no obvious way to free her." Dalsey said the woman was going into shock, unable to communicate with the physicians.
Bradford said the way to attack the local power structure was obvious.
Eugene Christiansen of the New York gaming consulting firm Christiansen Cummings Inc. said off-track betting parlors would be the obvious place to allow sports betting.