There's a German word "naheliegend" (pronounced nuh-her-lee-guend), whose literal translation would be "lying nearby".
I think we typically use it as a mixture of "sensible", "seemingly natural" and "obvious" without that confrontational subtone.
I think we typically use it as a mixture of "sensible", "seemingly natural" and "obvious" without that confrontational subtone.
Something like: It is right in front of your hands.
And I would not have a negative connotation with it in the right context. (E.g “Een tabel is een voor de hand liggende structuur om data te representeren” - a table is an ‘obvious’ manner to represent data)
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that German has a great word for this, although I admit when I started reading your comment I expected it to be a compound word.
I quite like the literal translation too!
Nærliggende
> 2. som naturlig faller en i tanken ; som det er naturlig å gripe til
(Aside from also having a literal meaning of being in physical proximity.)
Translated:
“Which naturally comes to mind; which it is natural to resort to.”
https://naob.no/ordbok/n%C3%A6rliggende
This Norwegian word would not have naturally come to mind for me though, if it wasn’t for GP mentioning the German equivalent of it. It is not a word I usually use myself. But I do hear others use it now and then.
The only negative sentiment tangentially associated with it is that when it's exhausted, further progress slows down.