What's the difference between conspicuous and inconspicuous?

Conspicuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.
  • (a.) Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
  • (4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (5) Postoperative haemodynamics in patients with cardiac disease followed the same trends as in normal patients; there were, however, no significant changes in cardiac index or central pressures, and in general the cardiovascular reaction to operation was less conspicuous than in the group of normal patients.
  • (6) This implies that there is no important loss of motor units and no conspicuous muscle fiber degeneration in fibromyalgia.
  • (7) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.
  • (8) SER proliferation in rat and monkey liver cells was less conspicuous than in mice.
  • (9) Another conspicuous histologic finding observed in the WKY hearts was that the continuity of the latitudinal fiber bundle of the ventricular septum with that of the left ventricular free wall, an important functioning unit for pressure generation in the left ventricle, was markedly disturbed in the area of junction between the 2 walls; the smaller the continuity, the greater the cardiac hypertrophy; the disadvantage of the discontinuity for the pressure generation may be related to the development of cardiac hypertrophy.
  • (10) The media theorist Nathan Jurgenson reads it as "conspicuous acquisition", after Thorstein Verblen's notion of conspicuous consumption.
  • (11) Both patients continue to use the device voluntarily; a smaller unit, however, that doesn't have the conspicuous external controls, would likely be readily acceptable to most young patients.
  • (12) But the large sums that undercut Hillary’s sudden fondness for economic populism will undercut Biden just as much, especially if raised conspicuously quickly.
  • (13) Among the most conspicuous features found were the presence of very distinct desmosome-like structures between blastomeres, and the cytoplasmic cell organelles distribution in three areas referred as: a sub-cortical, a middle and a perinuclear bands.
  • (14) Both tumors were solid, without conspicuous vascular differentiation by light microscopy.
  • (15) The study in which the animals were killed serially revealed that CTP had conspicuous damage on the respiratory system of rats, especially on the bronchiolo-alveolar areas.
  • (16) Hence the finding of six individuals with both these conditions in a small population with testicular cancer is highly conspicuous and indicates some kind of connection among such persons.
  • (17) PFB was conspicuously increased in maternal blood sera.
  • (18) The principal disadvantage, that this is a conspicuous donor site, has not been a source of concern for our patients.
  • (19) Histologically the most conspicuous were the findings of the hyaline alveolar membrane and the cellular atypia of endothel of the alveoles and the lymph-ducts.
  • (20) At the stage when each placode first becomes visible conspicuous differences have been seen in the surface morphology between those cells which will invaginate and form the placode and those which will remain on the surface of the head, forming the epidermis.

Inconspicuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Not conspicuous or noticeable; hardly discernible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The highest predictive values for the exclusion of TiC are shown by inconspicuous concentration capacity accompanied by normal ammonia excretion, total acid excretion, water diuresis, free water clearance or urine dilution capacity.
  • (2) Mediastinal masses are seldom detected early by conventional radiography since density differences between mediastinal tissues often are inconspicuous.
  • (3) They were inconspicuous and difficult to identify in air-dried Diff-Quik-stained material.
  • (4) RER and Golgi saccules were inconspicuous in these cells and this might indicate decreased production of PRL.
  • (5) 80 per cent of the available ECGs were automatically correctly arranged into groups and all the inconspicuous electrocardiograms were sorted out, since it occurs on no account that an electrocardiogram which was recognized as pathological by means of manual analyses, was analysed as falsely normal by the computer EAC-2.
  • (6) There was no deformity of the nipple or areola after this procedure, and the surgical scars were inconspicuous.
  • (7) In these patterns can be identified: (a) conspicuous behaviors, idiosyncratic for the individual, which often yield to psychoanalytic inquiry to reveal their dynamic-historical antecedents; and (b) inconspicuous background kinesics, habitual to the individual, which ordinarily are opaque to analytic exploration, yet hold rich meaning.
  • (8) Histologically, there is a pattern of irregular, branching venules with inconspicuous lumina and lack of cellular atypia.
  • (9) These phenomena might both be interpreted as non-random, functionally important cell contacts with the inconspicuous 'intercellular clefts' containing unstained material.
  • (10) A collective of 54 patients with uncomplicated delivery and afebrile, inconspicuous puerperium was vaginosonographically examined on the 1st day postpartum and also 6 weeks post partum.
  • (11) Reversible-figure training apparently led to a small but significant overall improvement in inconspicuous word identification but did not at all diminish the age differences in such performance.
  • (12) However, because of the lack of typical Reed-Sternberg cells and due to the presence of polymorphic cells with fine chromatin, regular nuclear borders and inconspicuous nucleoli, these cases were diagnosed cytologically as a benign lymphoproliferative disorder, pseudolymphoma cutis.
  • (13) The 23 biopsies of lupoid leishmaniasis showed rather well organized epithelioid granulomata surrounded by lymphocytes, inconspicuous plasma cells, no amastigotes and no necrosis.
  • (14) The nodules appeared to arise from inconspicuous cell nests, which were rudiments of neonatal NEBs.
  • (15) Authors report differential diagnosis between liposarcomas and other lipomatous tumors such as angiomyolipoma of the kidney (when it is large and only attached to the kidney by an inconspicuous pedicle) and intramuscular lipomas (50% of them are located in the thigh).
  • (16) Lumbar puncture should be repeated when clinical signs of meningitis persists in children, especially in infants with positive blood culture and with inconspicuous cerebrospinal fluid findings in the initial lumbar puncture.
  • (17) The main values of the procedure are the presence of a double vascular supply of both arteries and veins for complex reconstructions, and the fact that a large area of skin and subcutaneous tissue can be procured, with a relatively inconspicuous donor site.
  • (18) If ever there was a time to vote Labour, it is now | George Monbiot Read more Weighed against the perceived unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn , the calculation is that May’s carefully constructed public persona will carry her to coronation, though this plan seems to hinge on making the prime minister as inconspicuous as possible.
  • (19) Q-fever symptoms were evident in 191 cases but inconspicuous or absent in 224 cases.
  • (20) The proband, whose mother and brother had facial clefting, showed inconspicuous abnormalities of the lower lip and a bifid uvula.