1
as in noticeable
likely to attract attention
the seven-foot-tall basketball player is conspicuous in any crowd
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2
as in obvious
very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad
conspicuous bureaucratic waste that drives taxpayers crazy
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Recent Examples of conspicuous
White has vowed that even heavy lightning — when The Claw might make a conspicuous target for bolts — wouldn't stop the show.
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ABC News,
11 June 2026
White has vowed that even heavy lightning — when The Claw might make a conspicuous target for bolts — wouldn’t stop the show.
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Will Weissert,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
Supermassive black holes can be very conspicuous when actively feeding and therefore surrounded by a wealth of matter in a region called an active galactic nuclei (AGN).
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 June 2026
But luxury today is increasingly less about conspicuous ownership and more about access, flexibility, and optimization.
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Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for conspicuous
ABC News,
11 June 2026
White has vowed that even heavy lightning — when The Claw might make a conspicuous target for bolts — wouldn’t stop the show.
—
Will Weissert,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
Supermassive black holes can be very conspicuous when actively feeding and therefore surrounded by a wealth of matter in a region called an active galactic nuclei (AGN).
—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 June 2026
But luxury today is increasingly less about conspicuous ownership and more about access, flexibility, and optimization.
—
Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for conspicuous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspicuous
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Evolutionary cues, emotional encoding and genetics all converge in how partners experience each other’s smell, and a noticeable shift in that experience may be worth paying attention to.
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After 12 weeks, the results suggested that a tiny dose of regular exercise could yield noticeable physical benefits.
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Sure enough, all tires were up and there were no obvious punctures or hissing sounds.
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One of the first obvious things was that Larry is the guy who told Lincoln to go see that play.
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His father, Manuel Cepeda, was a prominent figure in the Colombian Communist Party, and was assassinated in 1994 during a particularly bloody era in Colombia's internal conflict.
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The chatbot’s responses include citations and prominent links to news outlets.
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This shows a blatant disregard for the integrity of our borders.
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Specifically, DuckDuckGo’s AI feature seems to have gotten fooled by a game of telephone kicked off by internet pranksters and laundered into blatant misinformation on a leading search engine.
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Or perhaps the Black policemen, who often watched the house without their white commanding officer, secretly sympathized with the uprising.
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Moments after the Knicks completed the largest comeback in NBA Finals history in Game 4 — erasing a 29-point deficit to take a commanding 3-1 series lead over the San Antonio Spurs — Stiller burst through the postgame interview room doors like the Kool-Aid Man.
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Ahead, design experts share the five most glaring living room flaws, plus advice for remedying them.
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Astronomers are puzzled that such a glaring inconsistency could have gone unnoticed in existing data, such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which provides our earliest snapshot of the universe.
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Moscow has similarly shown a remarkable ability to adapt in this military defense sphere as well.
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The remarkable reality is that this proposal enjoys broad bipartisan support.
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Now, following intense backlash from local communities, a series of lawsuits and a leadership shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security, the agency appears to be abandoning the initiative – a dramatic shift away from a plan that had already seen spending upwards of $1 billion.
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The show’s dramatic romance and journey of self-growth seems to fit in line with something Austen would’ve imagined for her characters.
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“Conspicuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspicuous. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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