Pellucid vs Conspicuous - What's the difference?
pellucid | conspicuous |
Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
* 1857 , , The Coral Island , ch. 16:
Easily understood; clear.
* 1999 , , Preface:
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:
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)- . . . 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.
- 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, translucentconspicuous
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.