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improminent en · ADJ

Etymology

From im- + prominent.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not prominent.
    • And who can dispense with prejudice long enough to admit that we are men, notwithstanding our improminent noses and woolly heads, and believe that we feel for our fathers, mothers, wives and children, as well as they do for theirs. 1829, David Walker, Walker’s Appeal, Boston: for the author, page 7:
    • I met both of these prominent men during my Columbus years, as an improminent young fellow-citizen might, 1916, William Dean Howells, Years of My Youth, New York: Harper, Part 3, p. 172:
    • The state’s curtailment of personal liberty in the public interest began in small and improminent ways: riot acts to limit the damage from public disorders, quarantines to control spread of communicable diseases, building codes to diminish fire hazards, etc. 1983, Nicholas Rescher, chapter 12, in Risk,, Washington, DC: University Press of America, page 147:

Synonyms

inconspicuous · vulgar · normal · everyday · expected · par · standard issue · standard · customary · congruent · workaday · medial · mundane · common-or-garden · garden variety · basic · obscure · natural · noteless · plain vanilla · unexceptional · discreet · inevident · quotidian · inobtrusive · unobtrusive · inconspicuous · wakeaday · bog-standard · plain · regular · routine · improminent · average · common · unconspicuous · consistent · typical · ordinary · commonplace · run-of-the-mill · unprotruding · undistinguished · common-and-garden · low-profile · unstrange · unevident · usual · improminent · par for the course · conventional · unremarkable