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easily noticed — typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual- She tried not to look conspicuous as she slipped into class after the tardy bell.
conspicuous = easily noticed — typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual
- She is the most conspicuous person on the President's cabinet. She is constantly interviewed on television.
- She wears a conspicuous cross around her neck and never misses a chance to talk about Jesus.
- a tower conspicuous at a great distance
- Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- I did not want to look conspicuous.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- They came out and went back on to the path where the trees might possibly make them less conspicuous.C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
- I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper
- ...his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- this group of rich and conspicuous people.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- Anyway, you should never be conspicuous.Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat
- He would have seen on Stone's desk the new textbook and bookmark, and on top of them, conspicuously perhaps, this letter.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- SJ was the only white player on his twelve-and-under AAU basketball team, and most of the black players were conspicuously poor.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- We all gathered around Angel, but then I remembered how conspicuous we were.James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
- But the rest of the queen's men were conspicuous in their absence.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- Roscoe, who usually could not be prevented from greeting me with a full body attack, was conspicuously absent.Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
- It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- When the old man's cough worsened, they would duck into a museum or café, careful to avoid places where they might be conspicuous.Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- Under Aristotle the "Reader," whose knowledge of Trojan areté seems conspicuously absent, forms and substances dominate all.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
conspicuous = attracting attention by being easily heard
conspicuous = easily noticed so as to attract attention
conspicuous = easily seen
conspicuous = very noticeable (attention-attracting)
conspicuous = easily noticed
conspicuous = prominent (easily noticed)
conspicuous = easily noticed so as to attract attention
conspicuous = easily noticed