conspicuous

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

con·spicu·ous BrE [kənˈspɪkjuəs] NAmE [kənˈspɪkjuəs] adjective
easy to see or notice; likely to attract attention
•Mary's red hair always made her conspicuous at school.
•I felt very conspicuous in my new car.
•The advertisements were all posted in a conspicuous place.
•The event was a conspicuous success (= a very great one).
•Bay windows are a conspicuous feature of his architecture.
Opp: ↑inconspicuous
Idiom: ↑conspicuous by your absence
Derived Words: ↑conspicuously ▪ ↑conspicuousness

Word Origin:
[conspicuous conspicuously conspicuousness] mid 16th cent.: from Latin conspicuus (from conspicere ‘look at attentively’, from con- (expressing intensive force) + spicere ‘look at’) + ↑-ous.

Example Bank:
•Its yellow skin makes it highly conspicuous.
•The new building was rather conspicuous.
•The stain on her dress was horribly conspicuous.
•Mary's red hair always made her conspicuous at school.
•The advertisements were all posted in conspicuous places.
•The event was a conspicuous success.
•The meeting went well but Nigel was conspicuous by his absence.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  blatant, blazing
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  inconspicuous, invisible