different between evident vs unmistakable

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin ?vid?ns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ?videor (“to appear plainly”)), from ? (“out”) + vide? (“see”), present participle vid?ns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v?.d?nt/
• Hyphenation: ev?i?dent

Adjective

evident (comparative more evident, superlative most evident)

1. Obviously true by simple observation.

   It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.

Derived terms

• evidently
• inevident
• self-evident

Related terms

• evidence
• evidential

Translations

Further reading

• evident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?vid?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.vi?dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.bi?den/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.vi?dent/

Adjective

evident (masculine and feminine plural evidents)

1. obvious; evident

Derived terms

• evidentment

Related terms

• evidència

Further reading

• “evident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

German

Etymology

From Latin ?vid?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [evi?d?nt]
• Hyphenation: evi?dent

Adjective

evident (comparative evidenter, superlative am evidentesten)

1. evident

Declension

Further reading

• “evident” in Duden online

Middle French

Adjective

evident m (feminine singular evidente, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentes)

1. obvious; evident

Descendants

• French: évident

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ?vid?ns.

Pronunciation

Adjective

evident m (feminine singular evidenta, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentas)

1. evident

Derived terms

• evidentament

Related terms

• evidéncia

Romanian

Etymology

From French évident, from Latin evidens.

Adjective

evident m or n (feminine singular evident?, masculine plural eviden?i, feminine and neuter plural evidente)

1. obvious

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• unmistakeable

Etymology

un- +? mistake +? -able

Pronunciation

Adjective

unmistakable (comparative more unmistakable, superlative most unmistakable)

1. Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

   Antonym: mistakable

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.

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