Apparent
Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
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.
An heir apparent.
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Apparent Quotations
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
Meryl Streep
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Bodhidharma
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams
Apparent Translations
apparent in Dutch is aanwijsbaar, vertoonbaar
apparent in French is apparent
apparent in German is offenbar, anscheinend, scheinbar
apparent in Italian is evidente, in apparenza
apparent in Latin is promptus
apparent in Norwegian is tydelig
apparent in Portuguese is aparente
apparent in Spanish is demostrable, aparente, manifiesto, visto
apparent in Swedish is tydligt
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