Synonyms for self-explanatory
adj obviousAntonyms for self-explanatory
more self evident
more selfevident
most obvious
- accessible
- barefaced
- bright
- clear
- clear as a bell
- conclusive
- conspicuous
- discernible
- distinct
- distinguishable
- evident
- explicit
- exposed
- glaring
- in evidence
- indisputable
- lucid
- manifest
- noticeable
- observable
- open
- overt
- palpable
- patent
- perceivable
- perceptible
- plain
- precise
- prominent
- pronounced
- public
- recognizable
- self-evident
- self-explanatory
- standing out
- straightforward
- transparent
- unconcealed
- undeniable
- undisguised
- unmistakable
- unsubtle
- visible
Word Origin & History
1813, from self- + explanatory.
Example Sentences forself-explanatory
Then there is a "two-day stand" and a "one-night stand," which are self-explanatory.
The second method of committing the slicing sin is self-explanatory.
Not a bad-looking woman, of a sort, but not self-explanatory.
In our economic experience, no more than elsewhere, is satisfaction an ultimate and self-explanatory term.
The name is self-explanatory and suggests a well-colored meerschaum.
This is indicated in Fig. 11, which, otherwise, is self-explanatory.
I think that Cadigan Exhibits Nos. 16, 17, and 18 are self-explanatory.
To a statesman of Hanley's astuteness, the largeness of Livingstone's contribution to the campaign fund was self-explanatory.
The subsequent reductions of the equations, as they appear in the figure for four zones, are self-explanatory.
He was a short, sallow, delicate-looking young fellow with self-explanatory puffs under his somewhat prominent eyes.