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Conspicuous vs Splendent - What's the difference?

conspicuous | splendent |

As adjectives the difference between conspicuous and splendent

is that conspicuous is obvious or easy to notice while splendent is shining; glossy; lustrous.

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

    Related terms

    * conspicuity * conspicuousness

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    splendent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • shining; glossy; lustrous
    • splendent planets
    splendent metals
  • Very conspicuous; illustrious.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • Great and splendent fortunes.
  • (archaic) splendid, marvellous, wonderful
  • *{{quote-book, year=1814, author=The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A., title=The Vision of Paradise, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=--And lo! toward me, next, Another of those splendent forms approach'd, That, by its outward bright'ning, testified The will it had to pleasure me. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1759, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=July 1st, Daun had crossed the Elbe (Daun let us say for brevity, though it is Daun and Karl, or even Karl and Daun, Karl being chief, and capable of saying so at times, though Daun is very splendent since Kolin),--crossed the Elbe above Brandeis; Nadasti, with precursor Pandours, now within an hour's march of Jung-Bunzlau;--and it was time to go. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1592, author=R.D., title=Hypnerotomachia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian Leria'', with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with ''Melanthia , whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece,[A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song. }} ----