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Conspicuous vs Panache - What's the difference?

conspicuous | panache |

As an adjective conspicuous

is obvious or easy to notice.

As a noun panache is

an ornamental plume on a helmet.

conspicuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Obvious or easy to notice.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
  • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 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.
  • Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.
  • * 1969 , Saul Bellow, Mr Sammler's Planet , Penguin Books Ltd, page 6:
  • For his height he had a small face. The combination made him conspicuous .
    He had a conspicuous lump on his forehead.

    Antonyms

    * inconspicuous

    panache

    Noun

  • (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
  • * 1896 — , Chapter 4
  • I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
  • (uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
  • * 1894
  • One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.

    Synonyms

    * (ornament on a helmet) hackle, plume, plumage * (flamboyant style) dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve