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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inconspicuous
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carpet cleaner should always be tested in an inconspicuous spot first.
▪ Saunder's studio is in an inconspicuous red-brick building on a quiet side street.
▪ The two bank robbers got in line at a nearby fast-food restaurant, hoping to be inconspicuous as police flooded the area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And she was supposed to remain inconspicuous.
▪ From about 1100 to 1869 the Taurids were lost, or so inconspicuous as to evade detection.
▪ I tried to be inconspicuous, but I could not stop staring at him, I could not stop listening to him.
▪ If this weird shit was going down all around him, it would pay to be as inconspicuous as possible.
▪ In the little churchyard in Sasbach, by contrast, two inconspicuous marble tablets are set into a wall.
▪ Teal are very inconspicuous when nesting, and no census has been attempted.
▪ The inconspicuous dunnock has the most variable mating system of any known bird.
▪ The door closed, and I stood in the corridor, trying to look inconspicuous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inconspicuous

Inconspicuous \In`con*spic"u*ous\, a. [L. inconspicuus. See In- not, and Conspicuous.] Not conspicuous or noticeable; hardly discernible. -- In`con*spic"u*ous*ly, adv. -- In`con*spic"u*ous*ness, n.
--Boyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inconspicuous

1620s, "invisible," from Late Latin inconspicuus, from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + Latin conspicuus (see conspicuous). Weakened sense of "not readily seen or noticed" first recorded 1828. Related: Inconspicuously; inconspicuousness.

Wiktionary
inconspicuous

a. Not prominent nor easily noticeable

WordNet
inconspicuous

adj. not prominent or readily noticeable; "he pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole"; "the invisible man" [syn: invisible] [ant: conspicuous]

Usage examples of "inconspicuous".

The spot was inconspicuous, which suited Philmont, except for one thing: there were no cabs parked here.

Old Bart, shabby and inconspicuous, dunking pound cake with his dirty fingers, shiny over the dirt.

But the DB III had the advantage of an up-to-date triptyque, an inconspicuous colour - battleship grey -and certain extras which might or might not come in handy.

Hawk parked it behind a place that sold orthotics, where it was about as inconspicuous in South Boston as Hawk was.

According to Kellaart, three inconspicuous brown dorsal streaks diverging and terminating on the crupper, and some very indistinct spots seen only in some lights.

The machine beeped a final time, and she returned to the media console, collected the last disk and began breaking the system down into components that she could carry in a single inconspicuous bag.

A day later, with all his belongings, few as they were, packed into the shabby suitcase from his closet and a small advance against his salary gone to pay his back rent, he was driven in an inconspicuous brown automobile through the streets and freeways of a Los Angeles grown gray through five years of Depression but almost free of smog as industrial activity and automobile exhausts dwindled toward zero.

So he calls up his lawbooks and requests legal advice on the subject and lawbooks says the best thing he can think of for Rudolph to do is to become as inconspicuous as possible right away but to please not mention to anyone that he gives this advice.

Char practiced putting up a mental barrier to keep her presence inconspicuous, but no one paid her any mind anyway, so she decided she was overreacting and quit it.

Given the two choices, inconspicuous or ostentatious, I would never hesitate past the natural reaction time for making a pointblank decision.

Before he could say anything, however, Baden knocked him back into his chair with an inconspicuous but effective elbow to the belly.

An inconspicuous but efficient Swiss waiter was serving hot drinks to the apres-ski crew.

I will go to Constantinople, to the house that Belisarius has arranged for me, and when the army is at home, I will entertain this Drosos and do my best to be as inconspicuous as possible.

Near the main entrance, Aves and Gillespee's lieutenant Faughn were sitting together at one of the tables, doing a good job of looking inconspicuous.

There was a door in the alley called Blindman's, where Genat had sat till someone knifed him, She dodged to it with Jensy in tow, this stout door inconspicuous among others, and pushed it open.