obvious

Definitions

1. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
2. Obvious, self-evident.

Equivalents

Examples

“Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason⟳, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort⟳ as to call⟳ into query alike the nature of their errand and their own⟳ relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.”

“During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border⟳ raid") to the London Midland, and so on.”

“One of the most obvious results of the B.R. Modernisation Plan⟳ has been the increasing use⟳ of diesel and electric traction; a less obvious by-product is the increase⟳ in track damage⟳ possible with the new forms of traction.”

“'Cause I threw you the obvious / to see⟳ what occurs behind / the eyes of a fallen angel / Eyes of a tragedy / Oh well, oh well / Apparently nothing / Apparently nothing at all”

“It is not obvious, to economists anyway, that cities should exist⟳ at all. Crowds of people mean⟳ congestion and costly land⟳ and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport⟳ costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend⟳ more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land⟳ and labour.”

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