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Pellucid vs Conspicuous - What's the difference?

pellucid | conspicuous |

As adjectives the difference between pellucid and conspicuous

is that pellucid is allowing the passage of light; transparent while conspicuous is obvious or easy to notice.

pellucid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
  • * 1857 , , The Coral Island , ch. 16:
  • . . . and the bright seaweeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.
  • Easily understood; clear.
  • * 1999 , , Preface:
  • If I treat that grammar as pellucid , then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.

    Synonyms

    * (allowing passage of light) clear, limpid, lucid, translucent * (easily understood) clear, crystal clear, lucid, translucent

    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