inconspicuous
not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.
Origin of inconspicuous
1Other words for inconspicuous
Other words from inconspicuous
- in·con·spic·u·ous·ly, adverb
- in·con·spic·u·ous·ness, noun
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How to use inconspicuous in a sentence
Thus was OK inconspicuously born into the world, on March 23, 1839, in the pages of a cantankerous Boston newspaper.
Their strategy, were they to try to board a plane with a weapon, would be to dress as inconspicuously as possible.
Larrys share ended there, and Larry himself exited from the scene of his first command quite inconspicuously on a stretcher.
Grapes of wrath | Boyd CableHe was of medium height, stockily built, inconspicuously dressed in a blue short-sleeved tunic, gray slacks and sandals.
The Sensitive Man | Poul William AndersonInconspicuously, he worked his hand down through the sand bottom of the prison.
Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
I had to evolve some scheme, and evolve it rapidly, how we might drop most inconspicuously into the world across the water.
Tono Bungay | H. G. WellsAs for Chief Manning, his genius for directing his subordinates is inconspicuously employed all the time.
The Substitute Prisoner | Max Marcin
British Dictionary definitions for inconspicuous
/ (ˌɪnkənˈspɪkjʊəs) /
not easily noticed or seen; not prominent or striking
Derived forms of inconspicuous
- inconspicuously, adverb
- inconspicuousness, noun
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