Apparent
/əˈpæɹənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjCapable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
adjClear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
Sentence Examples
It was apparent that there was no way out.
It was apparent to everybody that our team was stronger.
It soon became apparent that no one was going to come.
CEFR Practice Quiz
It was ____ from her trembling voice that she was terrified.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It was ____ from his face that he was not happy with the new decision.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English apparaunt, aparaunt, from Old French aparent, aparant, in turn from Latin appārēns, appārentis, present participle of appāreō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw."
— 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell."
— c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
"When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries."
— 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
"To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship."
— 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:
"This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun."
— 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, Aberration:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
It was ____ from her trembling voice that she was terrified.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It was ____ from his face that he was not happy with the new decision.