Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Obvious

Obvious , adjective

[Latin obvius; ob (see Ob-) + via way. See Voyage.]

1.
Opposing; fronting. [Obsolete]
To the evil turn My obvious breast. — Milton
2.
Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obsolete]
Obvious to dispute. — Milton
3.
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. — Pope