Search results
- Dictionaryobvious/ˈɒbvɪəs/
adjective
- 1. easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent: "unemployment has been the most obvious cost of the recession"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
Nov 20, 2014 · Anyway, the word means something like to state the obvious truth, and it is so obvious that there is little point in stating it. If I were to use it in a sentence, it would be found in the blank: "To state it is to utter a _____." Well, that might be a poor sample sentence. Edited to add:
Google Books ngrams show no uses of "blaringly obvious" for the past 200 years; Google search changes the terms "blaringly obvious" to "glaringly obvious"; in 69 years of reading, writing, speaking, listening, teaching, & editing English, I've never encountered "blaringly obvious" but have frequently encountered "glaringly obvious".
As a somewhat insulting noun, "Captain obvious" can be used for someone who is always stating the obvious. Prolixity can be used to describe someone who says too much. This may be applicable in some cases. In addition, Logorrhoea is a term with a similar meaning to prolixity although again the primary meaning is simply too much vs. stating the ...
"If a problem is painfully clear/obvious, etc, it is embarrassing because it is so clear/obvious, etc" - Cambridge dictionary – Lawrence Commented Feb 18, 2017 at 15:03
May 25, 2015 · In the acting/script/play/film world, "too on the nose" is a pretty common phrase which means lacking in sub-text, too obvious, having neither subtlety nor sophistication. In life, people can't usually say what they mean for one reason or another; when they do in film or theater it comes across as unrealistic.
Neglect can be both deliberate and unconscious. I would argue it would depend on the context of the neglect. It was the closest single word I could think to define the OP. To make the cause of the neglect clear, I guess the ideal answer would be wilfully neglect, as someone else has suggested.
Nov 21, 2015 · Mr. Doe, for whatever reason, does not understand the properties of x, even after analyzing x for days. We can tell Mr. Doe that "the properties of x are obviously obvious." There is no logical flaw in this case. One of the truths about x is that its properties are obvious. So, the obviousness of obvious is, in fact, obvious.
Jun 15, 2020 · Making a joke that is obvious, and perhaps sometimes inappropriate, is to be facetious: [Merriam-Webster] 1: joking or jesting often inappropriately : WAGGISH // just being facetious 2: meant to be humorous or funny : not serious // a facetious remark. In your example, you would use its adverb form. The characters are obviously in a cave, so:
Generally, an idiom's meaning isn't obvious. But how do we define "obvious"? One way would be to do a poll, asking 100 people who weren't familiar with the phrase to guess its meaning. I'd say that if the majority of people don't guess it, then it's an idiom.
Jun 21, 2017 · An obvious question is the most common phrase - really! The phrase could also refer to a question which rather obviously poses itself in the course of the discussion in question as well. You could also call it a trivial question, although that implies a lack of importance.
