obvious

Questions about obvious

What does obvious mean?

obvious means "easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind".

How many syllables are in obvious?

obvious has 3 syllables: ob-vi-ous. The stress falls on "ob". In IPA it is /ˈɑbviəs/.

What is the opposite of obvious?

The recorded antonyms are unobvious.

Is obvious a common word?

obvious is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.