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Evident vs Perspicuous - What's the difference?

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Evident is a related term of perspicuous.


As adjectives the difference between evident and perspicuous

is that evident is evident, obvious while perspicuous is clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.

As a verb evident

is .

evident

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Obviously true by simple observation.
  • It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=26 citation , passage=Maccario, it was evident , did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}

    Derived terms

    * self-evident

    perspicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  • * 1776 , , Book I, Chapter 4,
  • I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;
  • (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  • (rare) Transparent; translucent.
  • Antonyms

    * imperspicuous

    Derived terms

    * perspicuously * perspicuousness

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