evident

What it means

1. Obviously true by simple observation.

   It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.

   2 more examples

   The full extent of her injuries did not become evident until they tried to move her.

   Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.

   1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

   Synonyms: apparent, arrant, undoubted, glaring, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bell

In a sentence

It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.

Where it comes from

1. Latinēvidēns“visible, apparent, clear, plain”
2. Old Frenchevident
3. Middle Englishevident
4. Englishevident

From Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.