Conspicuous vs Intriguing - What's the difference?
conspicuous | intriguing |
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:
An intrigue.
* Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
As adjectives the difference between conspicuous and intriguing
is that conspicuous is obvious or easy to notice while intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious.As a verb intriguing is
.As a noun intriguing is
an intrigue.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.
Antonyms
* inconspicuousExternal links
* * * * *intriguing
English
Synonyms
* fascinating, interesting, attractiveVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.