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Conspicuous vs Transpicuous - What's the difference?

conspicuous | transpicuous |

As adjectives the difference between conspicuous and transpicuous

is that conspicuous is obvious or easy to notice while transpicuous is easily construed or seen through.

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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    transpicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easily construed or seen through.
    • "The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won converts by their transpicuous innocence." - Hugh Trevor Roper, in "The Invention of Tradition"