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# evident

«evident» in Mova's school dictionary: **Easy to see or understand; clear and obvious** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (evident, more evident, most evident)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Easy to see or understand; clear and obvious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#m1)

2) (formal) Shown by the facts, so that people can be sure of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and maths it means something you can see from the results or the diagram: «it is evident from the table that…». In stories it tells the reader that a feeling or fact is plain to everyone: «her joy was evident». Phrases: it is evident that, self-evident, become evident, evident from.

### examples

- It was evident that the dog had eaten the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x1)
- Her excitement was evident from her huge smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x2)
- It is evident from the graph that plants grow faster in sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x3)
- The damage from the storm was evident everywhere in the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x4)
- His nervousness became evident when his voice shook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x5)
- The answer was evident once we drew a picture of the problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x6)
- It is self-evident that you cannot be in two places at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x7)
- Her evident distress caused the sly Fox much amusement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/#x8)

### note

Related words: evidently (adverb), evidence (noun, the facts that prove something). Do not mix «evident» (clear) with «evidence» (proof). «Self-evident» means so obvious that it needs no proof. It is a slightly formal word; in speech people often say «clear» or «obvious».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «evident» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evident/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.