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• General-American: /ˈɑb.vi.əs/
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• General-American, informal: /ˈɑ.vi.əs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒ.vɪəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒb.vɪəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation, informal: /ˈɒv.jəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: AA1 B V IY0 AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”) + -ous, from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”).

126 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَدِيهِيّ (badīhiyy) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Arabic: بَدَهِيّ (badahiyy) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Arabic: وَاضِح (wāḍiḥ) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Arabic: مُبِين (mubīn) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Arabic: بَيِّن (bayyin) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Arabic: وَاضِح (wāḍiḥ) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Arabic: وَاضِح (wāḍiḥ) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Armenian: ակնհայտ (aknhayt) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Asturian: obviu — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Azerbaijani: aşkar — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Azerbaijani: açıq-aşkar — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Azerbaijani: bariz — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Azerbaijani: aydın — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Basque: ageriko — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Belarusian: відаво́чны (vidavóčny) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Bulgarian: очеви́ден (očevíden) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Catalan: obvi — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Chinese Cantonese: 明顯 /明显 (ming4 hin2) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Chinese Mandarin: 明顯 /明显 (míngxiǎn) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Chinese Mandarin: 顯然 /显然 (xiǎnrán) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Chinese Mandarin: 顯而易見 /显而易见 (xiǎn'éryìjiàn) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Chinese Mandarin: 明擺著 /明摆著 (míngbǎizhe) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Chinese Mandarin: 明摆着 (míngbǎizhe) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Czech: zřejmý — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Czech: samozřejmý — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Danish: tydelig — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Danish: åbenbar — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Danish: oplagt — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Danish: indlysende — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Danish: åbenlys — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Dutch: overduidelijk — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Dutch: voor de hand liggend — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Dutch: voordehandliggend — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Esperanto: evidenta — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Estonian: selge — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Estonian: ilmselge — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Finnish: ilmeinen — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Finnish: ilmiselvä — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Finnish: itsestäänselvä — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• French: évident — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Galician: obvio — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Georgian: საჩინო (sačino) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Georgian: ცხადი (cxadi) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Georgian: აშკარა (ašḳara) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• German: offensichtlich — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• German: selbstverständlich — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• German: deutlich — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• German: überdeutlich — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• German: offenbar — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• German: evident — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (uskunþs) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (swikunþs) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Greek: προφανής (profanís) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Hebrew: מוּבָן מֵאֵלָיו (muván meeláv) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Hindi: प्रत्यक्ष (pratyakṣ) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Hungarian: nyilvánvaló — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Hungarian: egyértelmű — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Hungarian: kézenfekvő — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Hungarian: magától értetődő — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Icelandic: augljós — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Icelandic: bersýnilegur — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Interlingua: obvie — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Irish: soiléir — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Irish: follasach — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Italian: ovvio — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Italian: evidente — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Italian: palese — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Japanese: 当たり前 (atarimae) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Japanese: 明らか (akiraka) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Javanese: cetha — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Kapampangan: ulata — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Kazakh: айқын (aiqyn) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Khmer: ជាក់ស្តែង (cĕəkstaeng) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Korean: 당연(當然)하다 (dang'yeonhada) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Korean: 뻔하다 (ppeonhada) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Latin: perspicuus — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Latin: manifestus — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Latvian: acīm redzams — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Lithuanian: akivaizdus — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Macedonian: очи́гледен (očígleden) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Macedonian: оче́виден (očéviden) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Māori: mārama — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Māori: tīahoaho — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Māori: ariari — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Māori: pūrangiaho — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Norwegian: opplagt — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Norwegian: innlysende — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Norwegian Nynorsk: berrsynt — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Occitan: òbvi — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Old English: andġiete — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Old Prussian: akiwīsts — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Pashto: ښکاره (ẍkâra) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Pashto: څرګند (śargand) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Plautdietsch: kloa — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Plautdietsch: dietlich — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Polish: oczywisty — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Portuguese: óbvio — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Romanian: evident — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Romanian: clar — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Romanian: limpede — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Romanian: vădit — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Russian: очеви́дный (očevídnyj) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Serbo-Croatian: očit — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Slovene: očiten — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Spanish: obvio — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Spanish: evidente — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Swedish: tydlig — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Swedish: uppenbar — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Tagalog: kanawa-nawa — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Tocharian B: pākri — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Turkish: belli — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Turkish: açık — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Turkish: belirgin — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Turkish: bariz — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Turkish: net — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Turkish: aşikar — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Ottoman Turkish: آچق (açık) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Ottoman Turkish: بللی (belli) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Ottoman Turkish: ظاهر (zahir) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Ottoman Turkish: منجلی (münceli) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Ottoman Turkish: دركار (derkâr) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Ukrainian: очеви́дний (očevýdnyj) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Ukrainian: я́вний (jávnyj) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Welsh: amlwg — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Zazaki: akerde (diq) — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory
• Zazaki: bellı — easily discovered or understood; self-explanatory