inconspicuous

[ in-kuhn-spik-yoo-uhs ]
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adjective
  1. not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.

Origin of inconspicuous

1
From the Latin word inconspicuus, dating back to 1615–25. See in-3, conspicuous

Other 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.

    OK, O.K., Okay | Denver Nicks | December 9, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Their strategy, were they to try to board a plane with a weapon, would be to dress as inconspicuously as possible.

    Hey, That's My Line | Ben Greenman | November 16, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Larrys share ended there, and Larry himself exited from the scene of his first command quite inconspicuously on a stretcher.

    Grapes of wrath | Boyd Cable
  • He was of medium height, stockily built, inconspicuously dressed in a blue short-sleeved tunic, gray slacks and sandals.

    The Sensitive Man | Poul William Anderson
  • Inconspicuously, 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. Wells
  • As for Chief Manning, his genius for directing his subordinates is inconspicuously employed all the time.

British Dictionary definitions for inconspicuous

inconspicuous

/ (ˌɪnkənˈspɪkjʊəs) /


adjective
  1. not easily noticed or seen; not prominent or striking

Derived forms of inconspicuous

  • inconspicuously, adverb
  • inconspicuousness, noun

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