apparent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈpæɹənt/    美 /əˈpæɹənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
    — […] 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.
  2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
    — 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.
  3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
    — 1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”), What George Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.

词形变化

more apparent comparative most apparent superlative

词汇关系

近义词
apparent bare displayed exposed unconcealed
反义词
latent hidden invisible ambiguous obscure
上位词
perceptible
下位词
conspicuous
衍生词
apparency apparent brightness apparent charge apparent death apparent horizon apparently apparent magnitude apparentness apparent temperature apparent time heir apparent heiress apparent inapparent nonapparent subapparent superapparent unapparent
相关词
apparition apparitional apparitionist appear appearance

词源

From Middle English apparaunt, aparaunt, from Old French aparent, aparant, in turn from Latin appārēns, appārentis, present participle of appāreō.
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