self-evident
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlfˈɛvɪdənt/
:
evidente
- Consequences are usually self-evident, involving the results of actions taken in any given situation.
- self-evident truth
- becomes self-evident
You know, it's like some things are kind of self-evident.
- You know, it's like some things are kind of self-evident.
- I just, I can't do it, but I can see what's self-evident.
- So either they are self-evident, almost an axiom, or you need a proof.
- I think that free speech is not self-evident, right?
- But also he writes, you know, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
- Now that is something that we could call in some respects self-evident.
- Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- You know, the human behavior arises within communities that just seems to me self-evident.
- I just how can we help them see and not tell them what to do, but just see it's self-evident.
- It's hard, but you know, growing up there were all kinds of medical, you know, truths that we held to be self-evident.
Examples
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The answer to the riddle was self-evident once you thought about it.
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We hold certain truths to be self-evident, that while all men are created equal, all cheeses are indeed not created equal.
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Ladies and gentlemen, maybe it's a simple thing, maybe it's a self-evident thing, but consider:
Fiction book (1990) -
Many of the solutions to these issues of engagement are self-evident, but here are some points you may wish to consider.
Academic text (2012) -
There were a number of themes like that that were self-evident in their importance.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident .
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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
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In our day certain economic truths have become accepted as self-evident.
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For my guests, it was self-evident that Alaska is part and parcel of the United States.
Academic text (1991) -
These sacred truths are self-evident.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Easy to see or understand
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2.1
Easy to see or understand
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4.2
So clear that people cannot doubt it
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6.7
Completely clear and leaving no doubt
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5.7
You cannot doubt it because it is clearly true
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7.8
Impossible to deny or prove wrong
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8.3
Clearly true and accepted without proof
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7.5
People cannot doubt it because it is clearly true
Clearly true and impossible to doubt
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-evident breaks into self- meaning 'by itself' and evident, which is like evidence and means 'clear'. So something self-evident is 'clear by itself' and needs no proof.