overt
overt
Definition
overt (ō vʉrt′, ō′vʉrt′)
adjective
- not hidden; open; observable; apparent; manifest
- Law done openly and publicly, without attempt at concealment and with evident intent
Etymology: ME overte < MFr overt, pp. of ovrir, to open < VL *operire < L aperire, to open: see aperture
overt′·ly adverb
overt
Synonyms
overt
Law Definition
adj
Unconcealed; open and
observable; not secret.
overt
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Only one bid in these categories outside the specialist institutions did not make such collaboration overt.
Modifies a noun
- hypothyroidism: Patients with detectable levels are more likely to progress to overt hypothyroidism.
- racism: They saw at first hand the hurt that overt racism could cause young children.
- hostility: We know that the long history of visitation has produced little evidence of overt hostility.
- sexuality: He designed numerous theater sets; his 1908 design for Oscar Wilde's Salome was censored for its overt sexuality.
- manifestation: According to the hypothesis, the overt manifestation of schizophrenic symptoms is a relatively uncommon outcome of a more common condition.
- aggression: You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
Modifying Another Word
- increasingly: These links are explicit, current and increasingly overt.
- too: I think if the violence is too overt the romance is lost.
- even: Even overt research, where the participants are fully aware of the researcher's aims, can be held up to ethical scrutiny.
- little: There is little overt interest in radical theology, meaning a non-realist theology, in South Africa.
- very: It was really a very overt sin on Peter's part.
- not: The echo of natural forms is there to be discovered in imagination: it is not overt.
Used with adjective complement
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