Obvious vs Iconic - What's the difference?
obvious | iconic |
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
Famously and distinctively representative of its type.
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, year=2012
, date=April 29
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)
(linguistics) Representing something; symbolic.
As adjectives the difference between obvious and iconic
is that obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory while iconic is relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.obvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}
Synonyms
* See also .Antonyms
* unobvious * non-obvious * subtleDerived terms
* obviously * obviousnessSee also
* plain * clear * evident * manifestExternal links
* *iconic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=In time The Simpsons would, indeed, resort to spoofing such decidedly non-spooktacular fare like E.T and Mr. And Mrs. Smith (both in “Treehouse Of Horror XVIII”) but in 1992 the field was wide-open and the show could cherry-pick the most iconic and beloved fright fare of all time.}}
- an iconic gesture in sign language
