self-evident English

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What does self-evident mean?

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self-evident Adjective

— If something is self-evident, it is clearly, obviously true. People do not need any proof to know that it is true. He said he wasn't rich, but his wealth became self-evident when he offered to let me ride in his private airplane. It is self-evident that you cannot work 20 hours a day and still have time to get enough sleep.

self-evident

— adjective (= axiomatic) evident without proof or argument an axiomatic truth we hold these truths to be self-evident

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self-evident English » English

obvious

axiomatic

self-explanatory

taken for granted

evident

certain

visible

unquestionable

undeniable

trivial

sure

natural

lucid

indisputable

incontrovertible

explicit

doubtless

axiomatical

aprioristic

apparent

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Simple sentences

I hold this as self-evident.

It's self-evident.

News and current affairs

From a child's perspective, it wasn't self-evident that losing was a good thing.