the obvious

noun

: something that is easy to understand or recognize

You are stating the obvious. Tell me something I don't already know.

Try to look beyond the obvious.

Examples of the obvious in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The lifting was assumed, God was the obvious entity being addressed, but what mattered most was the us, us, us. — Abdelrahman Elgendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

But don't let that part distract you from the obvious problems in Boulder. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

In my preliminary tests, none of the other six stood out from the rest, leaving the default Nebulamaster mode as the obvious choice for my formal tests. — M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026

Memorial Sloan Kettering — ranked one of the best cancer hospitals in the world — seemed like the obvious choice, the only choice. — Trisha Thadani Kirsten Potter Tanya Pérez Devin Murphy, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026