Vocabulary
Apparent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
clearly visible or understood; obvious.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- It is apparent that Israel`s genocide in Gaza and attack on Arab countries has full US backing.
- Iqbal is a great poet because of these apparent contradictions, not in spite of them.
- To the poetic heart, an apparent contradiction is only apparent.
- It captures and communicates the multilayered nature of reality: the apparent and the real, the hidden and the manifest, the immanent and the transcendent.
- True greatness of intellect lies in the ability to contain two opposing ideas and, by living out the apparent contradiction between them, attain the conviction that both of them are equally true.
Synonyms
evident, plain, obvious, clear, manifest, visible, discernible, perceptible, perceivable
Antonyms
unclear, obscure
Curator example
“for no apparent reason she laughed”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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