conspicuous
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conspicuous /kənˈspɪkjʊəs/
▶adjective clearly visible.
■ attracting notice or attention.
– phrases
conspicuous by one's absence obviously not present where one should be.
conspicuous by one's absence obviously not present where one should be.
– derivatives
conspicuity noun,
conspicuously adverb,
conspicuousness noun.
conspicuity noun,
conspicuously adverb,
conspicuousness noun.
– origin C16: from L. conspicuus (from conspicere ‘look at attentively’, from con- (expressing intensive force) + spicere ‘look at’) + -ous.
'conspicuous' also found in these Oxford entries:
blaze
- buckeye
- carpet shark
- conspectus
- dollarbird
- éclat
- evidence
- flagrant
- flameout
- fore
- glare
- kenspeckle
- leap
- nyala
- peacock butterfly
- phenocryst
- Portuguese man-of-war
- radiant
- seamark
- showcard
- singularize
- station pointer
- thrusting
- unobtrusive
- warning coloration
