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

evident \ev"ident\, a. f. 'evinent, l. evidens, -entis; e
   out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. see vision.
   clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding,
   and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of
   a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can
   not always be made evident.
   1913 webster

         your honor and your goodness is so evident. --shak.
   1913 webster

         and in our faces evident the signs
         of foul concupiscence.                   --milton.

   syn: manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent;
        conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. see
        manifest.
        1913 webster
see also:
vision manifest 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

evident
     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: apparent, manifest, patent, plain
     2: capable of being seen or noticed; "a discernible change in
        attitude"; "a clearly evident erasure in the manuscript";
        "an observable change in behavior" syn: discernible, observable
see also:
apparent manifest patent plain discernible observable 

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

74 moby thesaurus words for "evident":
   apparent, beholdable, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal,
   clear-cut, comprehensible, conspicuous, crystal-clear, defined,
   definite, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, explicit,
   exposed, exposed to view, express, glaring, hanging out,
   in evidence, in focus, in full view, in plain sight, in view,
   incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest,
   naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open to view,
   open-and-shut, outcropping, palpable, patent, perceivable,
   perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, prominent,
   pronounced, recognizable, revealed, seeable, self-evident,
   self-explaining, self-explanatory, showing, staring,
   straightforward, tangible, to be seen, unambiguous, unclouded,
   unconcealed, understandable, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable,
   viewable, visible, visual, well-defined, well-marked,
   well-pronounced, well-resolved, witnessable

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