Conspicuous vs Tangible - What's the difference?
conspicuous | tangible |
Obvious or easy to notice.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.
* 1969 , Saul Bellow, Mr Sammler's Planet , Penguin Books Ltd, page 6:
Touchable; able to be touched or felt]]; perceptible by the sense of [[touch#Noun, touch; palpable.
Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.
As adjectives the difference between conspicuous and tangible
is that conspicuous is obvious or easy to notice while tangible is touchable; able to be touched or felt]]; perceptible by the sense of [[touch#noun|touch; palpable.As a noun tangible is
real or concrete results.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.