Salient vs Excessive - What's the difference?
salient | excessive |
Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
Prominent; conspicuous.
* Bancroft
(heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
(obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Shooting out up; springing; projecting.
* Burke
(military) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
As adjectives the difference between salient and excessive
is that salient is worthy of note; pertinent or relevant while excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.As a noun salient
is (military) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.salient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
- He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.
- a lion salient
- a salient angle
- frogs and salient animals
- He had in himself a salient , living spring of generous and manly action.
Quotations
{{timeline, 1800s=1878 1898, 1900s=1936}} * 1878 , , Book 2, chapter 5: *: With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy." * 1898 , Book2, chapter 2: *: The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular. * 1936 , : *: Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.Antonyms
* (prominent) obscure, trivialDerived terms
* salient pointNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* salient poleAnagrams
* ----excessive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."