Blatant vs Unobtrusively - What's the difference?
blatant | unobtrusively |
Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
Obvious, on show.
* (Richard Henry Dana)
* (Edmund Spenser)
* (Washington Irving)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= In an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
As an adjective blatant
is bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.As an adverb unobtrusively is
in an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant.blatant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Harsh and blatant tone.
- A monster, which the blatant beast men call.
- Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (obvious) furtiveSee also
* ostentatiousunobtrusively
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He felt not the slightest doubt in his mind that this was the girl who had written him, and, having given an order to the waiter, he started to study her face as unobtrusively as possible.