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Inconspicuous vs Unconspicuous - What's the difference?

inconspicuous | unconspicuous |

As adjectives the difference between inconspicuous and unconspicuous

is that inconspicuous is not prominent nor easily noticeable while unconspicuous is not conspicuous; inconspicuous.

inconspicuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not prominent nor easily noticeable
  • * 2004 , , 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.

    Synonyms

    * invisible

    Antonyms

    * conspicuous

    See also

    * obscure * unnoticeable

    unconspicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Not conspicuous; inconspicuous
  • *{{quote-book, year=1861, author=, title=Utilitarianism, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=All the grand sources, in short, of human suffering are in a great degree, many of them almost entirely, conquerable by human care and effort; and though their removal is grievously slow—though a long succession of generations will perish in the breach before the conquest is completed, and this world becomes all that, if will and knowledge were not wanting, it might easily be made—yet every mind sufficiently intelligent and generous to bear a part, however small and unconspicuous , in the endeavour, will draw a noble enjoyment from the contest itself, which he would not for any bribe in the form of selfish indulgence consent to be without. }}