CONSPICUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conspicuously mean? 

• CONSPICUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONSPICUOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. in a manner tending to attract attention

2. in a prominent way

  Familiarity information: CONSPICUOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSPICUOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner tending to attract attention

Context example:

there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place

Antonym:

inconspicuously (in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention)

Pertainym:

conspicuous (without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a prominent way

Synonyms:

conspicuously; prominently

Context example:

the new car was prominently displayed in the driveway

Pertainym:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

 Context examples 

So he sat on his haunches, conspicuously in an open space, and challenged the hawk down out of the sky.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This puerile feature in a nature which was conspicuously manly had often given rise to comment and conjecture.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We saw in this a way of smoothing matters, so at Fundu, where the Bistritza runs into the Sereth, we got a Roumanian flag which we now fly conspicuously.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The petals collectively; usually the conspicuously colored flower whorl.

(Corolla, Food and Drug Administration)

Without social transmission taking place in predator species such as great tits, it becomes extremely difficult for conspicuously coloured prey to outlast and outcompete alternative prey, even if they are distasteful or toxic.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

The evidence includes bits of charcoal, jumbles of rock brought in by a tsunami's backflow, and conspicuously absent sulfur.

(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)

A malignant germ cell tumor of the central nervous system composed of primitive-appearing epithelial cells - putatively representing yolk sac endoderm - set in a loose, variably cellular, and often conspicuously myxoid matrix, resembling extra-embryonic mesoblast.

(Central Nervous System Yolk Sac Tumor, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

One class overlapped conspicuously with genetic variation associated with schizophrenia in key (pyramidal) neurons of the brain’s outer mantel, or cortex, with likely cumulative effects on cellular structure and function, suggest the researchers.

(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)