Etymology
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Learned borrowing from Late Latin incōnspicuus.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˌɪn.kənˈspɪk.ju.əs/
Adjective
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inconspicuous (comparative more inconspicuous, superlative most inconspicuous)
- Invisible. [from 1620s]
- Antonym: visible
- Not prominent nor easily noticeable. [from 1828]
- Antonym: conspicuous
2004, Shell Oil Company, Let's Collect Rocks and Shells, Kessinger Publishing Co., page 9:Approaching danger, whether from octopus, fish or man, arouses caution in a small mollusk and it becomes as inconspicuous as it can.
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Translations
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not prominent or easily noticeable
- Arabic: غَيْرُ ظَاهِر (ḡayru ẓāhir)
- Bulgarian: незабележим (bg) (nezabeležim), незабелязващ се (nezabeljazvašt se), неотличим (neotličim), неотличаващ се (neotličavašt se)
- Czech: nenápadný
- Dutch: onopvallend (nl)
- Finnish: huomiota herättämätön, huomaamaton (fi)
- French: discret (fr) m
- German: unauffällig (de)
- Hungarian: alig észrevehető, nem feltűnő, feltűnésmentes (hu), diszkrét (hu), semleges (hu), jellegtelen (hu), jelentéktelen (hu), észrevétlen (hu), észrevehetetlen (hu)
- Macedonian: незабе́лежлив (nezabéležliv)
- Manx: neuvaghtal
- Norwegian: upåfallende
- Polish: niepozorny (pl) m, nierzucający się w oczy
- Portuguese: discreto (pt) m, inconspícuo (pt) m
- Russian: незаме́тный (ru) (nezamétnyj)
- Slovak: nenápadný
- Spanish: disimulado (es), desapercibido (es), discreto (es)
- Swedish: oansenlig (sv), diskret (sv), tillbakadragen (sv), undangömd (sv), fördold (sv), dold (sv), förstulen (sv), omärklig (sv)
- Ukrainian: непримітний (neprymitnyj), непомі́тний (nepomítnyj)
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