Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Obvious \Ob"vi*ous\, a. [L. obvius; ob (see {Ob-}) + via way.
   See {Voyage}.]
   1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]

            To the evil turn My obvious breast.   --Milton.

   2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] ``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.

   Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See {Manifest}. --
        {Ob"vi*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob"vi*ous-ness}, n.