[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

apparent \appar"ent\, a. f. apparent, l. apparens, -entis, p.
   pr. of apparere. see appear.
   1. capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view;
      visible to the eye; within sight or view.
      1913 webster

            the moon . . . apparent queen.        --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident;
      obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
      1913 webster

            it is apparent foul play.             --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            to live on terms of civility, and even of apparent
            friendship.                           --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            what berkeley calls visible magnitude was by
            astronomers called apparent magnitude. --reid.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   syn: visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain;
        evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious.
        1913 webster
see also:
appear apparent horizon apparent time time heir apparent presumptive 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

apparent \appar"ent\, n.
   an heir apparent. obs.
   1913 webster

         i'll draw it the sword as apparent to the crown.
                                                  --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

apparent
     adj 1: 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" syn: evident, manifest, patent, plain
     2: 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: apparenta, ostensible, seeminga
     3: readily apparent to the eye; "angry for no apparent reason";
        "had no visible means of support"
see also:
evident manifest patent plain apparenta ostensible 
seeminga 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

135 moby thesaurus words for "apparent":
   barmecidal, barmecide, airy, apparitional, appearing, autistic,
   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

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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.

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