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Antonyms for conspicuously


Grammar : Adv
Spell : kuhn-spik-yoo-uhs
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈspɪk yu əs



Definition of conspicuously

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Latin conspicuus "visible, open to view, striking," from conspicere "to look at, observe, see, notice," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + specere (see scope (n.1)). Phrase conspicuous by its absence (1859) is said to be from Tacitus ("Annals" iii.76), in a passage about certain images: "sed præfulgebant ... eo ipso quod effigies eorum non visebantur."
  • As in markedly : adv distinctly
  • As in notably : adv especially
  • As in loudly : adv audibly
  • As in clearly : adv without any doubt
  • As in eminently : adv exceptionally; well
  • As in especially : adv exceptionally, particularly
  • As in greatly : adv considerably
  • As in apparently : adv obviously
Example sentences :
  • Hobbs had seemed more of the craven type which Stryker graced so conspicuously.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Why, then, have we retired from this field in which we were once conspicuously successful?
  • Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root
  • Among his other lackings Lute was conspicuously short of tact.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The operation of this peculiar cause is conspicuously plain.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
  • Where the Duke of Bourbon had failed, Dragut had conspicuously succeeded.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Barbary Corsairs » by Stanley Lane-Poole
  • Now the tall man, the one conspicuously dressed, had been Trencher.
  • Extract from : « From Place to Place » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • He conspicuously displayed one of the weapons which had captured the castle.
  • Extract from : « The Pirates of Ersatz » by Murray Leinster
  • I want to make good, conspicuously good, at the start—understand?
  • Extract from : « The Silent Bullet » by Arthur B. Reeve
  • They are in the fashion; too much in the fashion even to be conspicuously fashionable.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Hedwig had taken up her position by a window, and was conspicuously silent.
  • Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Synonyms for conspicuously

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