Affluent vs Conspicuous - What's the difference?
affluent | conspicuous |
(rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
* 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
Abundant; copious; plenteous.
* H. Reed
(label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
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(label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
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Obvious or easy to notice.
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, chapter=7 Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.
* 1969 , Saul Bellow, Mr Sammler's Planet , Penguin Books Ltd, page 6:
As adjectives the difference between affluent and conspicuous
is that affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous while conspicuous is obvious or easy to notice.As a noun affluent
is somebody who is wealthy.affluent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- languageaffluent in expression
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- affluent blood
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* affluence * affluentlyReferences
conspicuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=“No, don't,” replied the superintendent; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”}}
- He was conspicuous by his absence.
- For his height he had a small face. The combination made him conspicuous .
- He had a conspicuous lump on his forehead.
