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Meanings of obvious in English

Portuguese
óbvio
Catalan
obvi
Spanish
obvio

Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind.

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óbvio
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Examples for "unobvious"
Examples for "unobvious"
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It's certainly a day to consider the more unobvious possibilities.
The South African
2
It is completely unobvious territory for a TV programme.
The Guardian
3
But the flaw in the foundations is sufficiently unobvious that generations of very clever people were able to overlook it.
Economics Without Illusions
4
In other words, he beats all other poets, ancient and modern, in constructing metaphors upon the most subtile, delicate, and unobvious analogies.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
5
Though he carried the motion through, the letter remained in one piece, in one hand, having passed through the other hand in some unobvious fashion.
Blood music
Usage of obvious in English
1
Ms Broughton said water quality problems had become obvious to the iwi.
Radio NZ
2
All this is obvious today and, indeed, was obvious fifty years ago.
Brave new world revisited
3
Financial services More obvious opportunities may exist in the financial services sector.
The Irish Times
4
The logical answer to the latter question seems pretty obvious: probably not.
The Guardian
5
This much was obvious a week, month and even a year ago.
The Guardian
6
Ideas come from other ideas, Glass said, an obvious but important statement.
The Irish Times
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The obvious question is: what did his company get from our government?
The Guardian
8
However, SAFE believed harm to animals might not always be so obvious.
Radio NZ
9
The short and to be fair obvious answer is with great difficulty.
The Irish Times
10
The list raises an obvious question: what is an honours system for?
The Guardian
11
If the budget needs trimming in the future, here's an obvious place.
Reuters
12
Their later antagonism arose for several reasons, some obvious, others less clear.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
13
China is careful to avoid obvious public references to its Shugden strategy.
Reuters
14
An obvious but rarely asked question is: whose cash is Uber burning?
The Guardian
15
Yet no number of replay viewings reveals a clear and obvious error.
The Guardian
16
It seemed obvious at the time but, today, nobody can quite remember.
The Irish Times
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Translations for obvious
Catalan
obvi
Spanish
obvio
Obvious through the time
Obvious across language varieties
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Common
Canada
Common
Australia
Common
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