Prominent
['prɒmɪnənt] or ['prɑmɪnənt]
Definition
(a.) Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase.
(a.) Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the face; a prominent building.
(a.) Eminent; distinguished above others; as, a prominent character.
Typist: Marvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Protuberant, projecting.[2]. Conspicuous, eminent, celebrated, distinguished, famous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest, conspicuous,eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading, characteristic, distinctive
ANT:Receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved, intailed, withdrawn,inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant, indistinctive, undistinguishable,subordinate
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Definition
adj. standing out beyond the line or surface of something: projecting: most easily seen: conspicuous: principal: eminent: distinguished.—ns. Prom′inence Prom′inency state or quality of being prominent: conspicuousness: distinction.—adv. Prom′inently.
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Examples
- Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In this manner a good deal of capital and the energies of many prominent men in politics and business had been rallied distinctively to the support of arc lighting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The door was opened by a swarthy foreign-looking maid, with a prominent bosom under a gay neckerchief, whom he vaguely fancied to be Sicilian. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A prominent factor in the electrical art is the _Storage Battery_, Secondary Battery, or Accumulator, as it is variously called. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Duke of Wellington, then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and many other prominent men were present. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Among them, and prominent in some dispute, was the father of the little child. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But his strong commanding face, his eagle glance, firm mouth, and prominent nose marked him at once as a born leader of men. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I should have been happy to have made Lady Dedlock a prominent consideration, too, if the case had admitted of it; but unfortunately it does not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Prominent among those who have contributed to this art are the names of Turpin, Abel and Dewar, Nobel, Maxim, Munroe, Du Pont, Bernadou and others. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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