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conspicuously en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English conspicuous Middle English -ly English -ly English conspicuously From conspicuous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.
   • The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been conspicuously absent from national television interviews over the last two weeks, as the White House moves ahead with reopening the economy. 2020 May 20, Oliver Darcy, “Fauci conspicuously stops doing TV interviews as White House moves to reopen economy”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:
   • (Even a comedy like Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune [1999], which conspicuously lacks a redneck criminal, features a fair-minded, unracist Mississippi sheriff, played by Ned Beatty.) 2003, Allison Graham, Framing the South, page 187:
   • […] and so conspicuously did the excellence of this man appear, in preacing the gospel with courage and resolution, and in confirming his doctrine by the miracles which he wrought, that […] 1796, A New History of the Holy Bible, page 226:
   • Women enjoy being pursued, but men still don’t! They don’t want anything that seems too easy to win. If the woman takes the initiative—at least if she takes it conspicuously—the world will think her aggressive, and unladylike. 1946, Clifford Rose Adams, Vance O. Packard, How to Pick a Mate:
   • The bloatings, the bowel distentions, the torments from gas retention, the inability to expel flatus, are all conspicuously absent and if present are so in a mild degree. 1914, Canada Lancet, volume 47, page 371:

Forms

Antonyms

inconspicuously

Translations (17)

grc ἐπιφανῶς (in a conspicuous manner) · pl rażąco (in a conspicuous manner) · pl zauważalnie (in a conspicuous manner) · pl widocznie (in a conspicuous manner) · de sichtbar (in a conspicuous manner) · fi silmiinpistävästi (in a conspicuous manner) · de deutlich (in a conspicuous manner) · fr ostensiblement (in a conspicuous manner) · es obviamente (in a conspicuous manner) · de auffallend (in a conspicuous manner) · de auffällig (in a conspicuous manner) · fi huomiota herättävästi (in a conspicuous manner) · nl opvallend (in a conspicuous manner) · fi näkyvästi (in a conspicuous manner) · es notablemente (in a conspicuous manner) · ca conspícuament (in a conspicuous manner) · pt conspicuamente (in a conspicuous manner)