Surreptitious vs Obvious - What's the difference?
surreptitious | obvious |
Stealth]]y, furtive, [[hidden, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 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)
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As adjectives the difference between surreptitious and obvious
is that surreptitious is stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements) while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.surreptitious
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* surreptitiouslyobvious
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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.}}