Conspicuously

Definition: Conspicuously

Conspicuously

Adverb

1. In a manner tending to attract attention; "there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place".

2. In a prominent way; "the new car was prominently displayed in the driveway".

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Date "conspicuously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonym: Conspicuously

Crosswords: Conspicuously

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Photograph taken during World War II, showing the Medal of Honor designed by Tiffany & Company that was awarded for First World War Service and discontinued in 1942. The medal was authorized by Congress on 4 February 1919 for presentation in the name of Congress by the President to Naval personnel who shall "in action involving actual conflict with the enemy, distinguish himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" and without detriment to his mission. Credit: NAVY.

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He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome.

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Economic History

Oman

Work rules must be approved by the Ministry and posted conspicuously in the work place. (references)

Minorities

Panama

Blacks are conspicuously absent from positions of political and economic power. (references)

Political Rights

Togo

Members of southern ethnic groups were underrepresented; however, no ethnic group, including the President's, was overrepresented conspicuously in the Cabinet. (references)

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Chinese 

显眼地. (various references)

German

deutliche (broad, lucidly, perspicuously). (various references)

Hungarian

szembetűnően, feltűnően (garishly, markedly, ostentatiously, strikingly). (various references)

Italian

cospicuamente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

優れて (by far, exceedingly), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire), 一際 (especially, noticeably, remarkably, still more). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すぐれて (by far, exceedingly), ひときわ (especially, noticeably, remarkably, still more), めきめき . (various references)

Korean 

분명하게 (Evidently). (various references)

Manx

dy reayrtagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

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Scottish

foirneata (conspicuously brave). (various references)

Spanish

visiblemente (observably, visibly). (various references)

Turkish

dikkat çekici biçimde, belli olarak, bariz (apparent, as plain as a pikestaff, avowed, blatant, blazing, conspicuous, gross, pronounced, sharp), çarpıcı bir biçimde. (various references)

Vietnamese 

rõ r� ng (apodeictic, apodictic, apodictical, apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, clear-cut, clearly, conspicuous, discriminate, discriminative, explicit, indubitable, limpid, lucid, luculent, manifest, marked, notorious, obvious, open, patently, plain, pronounced, self-apparent, tangible, transparent, visibly, well-marked), l�" lộ, dễ thấy (conspicuous, distinct, salient), đập ngay v� o mắt (conspicuous). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "conspicuously": inconspicuously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conspicuously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conspiciously, conspicously. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: consciously, conspicuous.

-3 letters: occlusions.

-4 letters: conscious, copiously, nocuously, occlusion, sinuously, succinyls.

-5 letters: colonics, councils, couscous, cousinly, cyclosis, insculps, luscious, piccolos, plosions, pocosins, puccoons, pulsions, pycnosis, sculpins, snoopily, soupcons, spoonily, succinyl, syncopic, upsilons.

+2 letters: inconspicuously.