Outstanding vs Obvious - What's the difference?
outstanding | obvious | Related terms |
prominent or noticeable; standing out from others
exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority
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projecting outwards
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unresolved; not settled or finished
owed as a debt
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Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*: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.
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Outstanding is a related term of obvious.
As adjectives the difference between outstanding and obvious
is that outstanding is prominent or noticeable; standing out from others while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.outstanding
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.}}
Derived terms
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*obvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=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.}}
