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Conspicuous vs Upstare - What's the difference?

conspicuous | upstare |

As an adjective conspicuous

is obvious or easy to notice.

As a verb upstare is

to stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.

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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    upstare

    English

    Verb

    (upstar)
  • To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
  • *1896 , Edward Dowden, The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley :
    • In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...]
  • *1903 , Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42 :
    • Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us.
  • *1927 , Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven
    • I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare
  • *1999 , Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana :
    • [...] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood!