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Meaning of apparent

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  apparent
      adj 1: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment;
             "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who
             sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest
             disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning
             plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in
             plain view" [syn: {apparent}, {evident}, {manifest},
             {patent}, {plain}, {unmistakable}]
      2: appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his
         apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the
         committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the
         ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
         [syn: {apparent(a)}, {ostensible}, {seeming(a)}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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