How do you pronounce obvious?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɑb.vi.əs/.

obvious

/ˈɑb.vi.əs/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables: ob-vi-ous
IPA: /ˈɑb.vi.əs/

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Meaning

adj

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

Example Sentences

"Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed."
"During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on."
"One of the most obvious results of the B.R. Modernisation Plan has been the increasing use of diesel and electric traction; a less obvious by-product is the increase in track damage possible with the new forms of traction."
"'Cause I threw you the obvious / to see what occurs behind / the eyes of a fallen angel / Eyes of a tragedy / Oh well, oh well / Apparently nothing / Apparently nothing at all"
"It is not obvious, to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour."

Etymology

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”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɑb.vi.əs/
British English: /ˈɒ.vɪəs/

Inflected Forms

more obvious (comparative) most obvious (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonobvious obvi obviosity obviously obviousness overobvious semiobvious unobvious

Phrases

Captain Obvious master of the obvious non-obvious obvious by inspection state the obvious

Frequently Paired Words

obviate obviously

Synonyms

apparent arrant undoubted glaring bait blatant clear clear as a bell clear as day clear cut conspicuous crystal clear

Antonyms

clear as mud inconspicuous inevident nonevident muddied muddled non-obvious nonobvious opaque subtle unclear unobvious