This red tulip is conspicuous.
An example of conspicuous is a naked person on the field during a football game.
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Origin of conspicuous
Classical Latin conspicuus, open to view from conspicere, to look at, observe from com-, intensive + specere, see: see spy
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adjective
Origin of conspicuous
From Latin cōnspicuus from cōnspicere to observe com- intensive pref. ; see com- . specere to look ; see spek- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
adverb
noun
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(comparative more conspicuous, superlative most conspicuous)
From Latin conspicuus (“visible, striking”), from cōnspicere (“to notice”), from con- (“with, together”) + specere (“to look at”)
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"conspicuous." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 22 February 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/Conspicuous>.
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