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Synonyms for prominent
ˈprɒm ə nəntprom·i·nent
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
prominent
Synonyms:
jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest, conspicuous, eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading, characteristic, distinctiveAntonyms:
receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved, intailed, withdrawn, inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant, indistinctive, undistinguishable, subordinate
Princeton's WordNet
outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, strikingadjective
having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
"an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child"
Synonyms:
salient(ip), large, striking, owing(p), dramatic, spectacular, great, salient, outstanding, undischarged, bigAntonyms:
inconspicuous, invisiblebig, large, prominentadjective
conspicuous in position or importance
"a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
Synonyms:
magnanimous, spectacular, bountiful, big, vainglorious, cock-a-hoop, braggy, with child(p), striking, giving, bombastic, grownup, grown, large(p), enceinte, tumid, bounteous, liberal, self-aggrandizing, swelled, handsome, fully grown, braggart(a), bighearted, expectant, heavy(a), great(p), large, bragging(a), bad, freehanded, turgid, heavy(p), big(a), self-aggrandising, salient, boastful, full-grown, openhanded, declamatory, adult, orotund, gravid, big(p), crowing, outstandingAntonyms:
invisible, inconspicuous
Editors Contribution
outstand
standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable
her eyes are her most prominent feature.
Submitted by rinat on June 5, 2017
Dictionary of English Synonymes
prominentadjective
Synonyms:
protuberant, projectingprominentadjective
Synonyms:
conspicuous, eminent, celebrated, distinguished, famous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
prominentadjective
Synonyms:
protuberant, conspicuous, salient, eminent, distinguished
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "prominent":
eminent, outstanding, leading, distinguished, salient, conspicuous, pre-eminent, high-profile, senior, top, renowned, important, famous, notable, well-known, remarkable, predominant, significant, dominant, visible, major, striking, preponderant, featured
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#104 | top | |
#209 | great | |
#330 | big | |
#373 | main | |
#462 | large | |
#573 | important | |
#638 | major | |
#821 | adult | |
#841 | bad | |
#1233 | featured | |
#1406 | significant | |
#1445 | senior | |
#1465 | leading | |
#1884 | giving | |
#2259 | extended | |
#2717 | famous | |
#3490 | outstanding | |
#4110 | liberal | |
#4407 | visible | |
#4834 | grown | |
#5921 | spectacular | |
#6916 | dramatic | |
#7425 | distinguished | |
#7834 | dominant | |
#7984 | remarkable | |
#8104 | characteristic | |
#8513 | prominent | |
#8853 | striking | |
#10011 | notable | |
#10110 | distinctive | |
#10666 | renowned | |
#12059 | handsome | |
#13329 | manifest | |
#16239 | eminent | |
#17544 | relieved | |
#20939 | embossed | |
#23124 | predominant | |
#26176 | conspicuous | |
#28158 | salient | |
#33219 | bountiful | |
#38946 | expectant | |
#52290 | swelled | |
#79267 | bombastic | |
#86009 | jutting | |
#94544 | crowing | |
#97682 | magnanimous | |
#108498 | boastful | |
#114959 | grownup | |
#115955 | turgid | |
#137636 | enceinte | |
#145397 | gravid | |
#173882 | bounteous | |
#192580 | preponderant | |
#228397 | vainglorious | |
#229576 | undischarged | |
#290105 | declamatory | |
#314975 | protuberant |
How to use prominent in a sentence?
As a major natural antioxidant in the body, uric acid has been estimated to account for more than 50 percent of the antioxidant capacity of plasma, with these potentially neuro-protective properties, uric acid has been hypothesized to protect against oxidative stress, a prominent contributor to dopaminergic neuron degeneration in Parkinson's disease, which may also play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.
I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.
These monuments have stood not as historic or educational markers of our legacy of slavery and segregation, but in celebration of it, to literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in some of our most prominent public places is not only an inaccurate reflection of our past, it is an affront to our present, and a bad prescription for our future. We should not be afraid to confront and reconcile our past.
As a society, we need to fund critical open-source projects [ that ] technology providers rely on and make us all vulnerable when vulnerabilities are found, i hope that the White House invited members of the Apache Group or other prominent open-source maintainers so they could hear about the struggles these volunteer teams have and resources they could use the most.
Lebanon's main political parties, including Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement, the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces, the Amal Movement, and others, have benefited from the port's ambiguous status and poor governance and accountability structures, political parties have installed loyalists in prominent positions in the port, often positioning them to accrue wealth, siphon off state revenues, smuggle goods, and evade taxes in ways that benefit them or people connected to them.
Translations for prominent
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- شهيرArabic
- prominentCatalan, Valencian
- vynikající, prominentní, nápadný, vyčnívajícíCzech
- hervorstechend, hervorstehend, prominent, überstehendGerman
- διαπρεπής, εμφανής, προεξέχων, περίοπτος, εξέχων, διακεκριμένοςGreek
- prominente, sobresalienteSpanish
- برجستهPersian
- huomattava, silmiinpistävä, esiin työntyvä, merkittäväFinnish
- proéminent, saillant, protubérantFrench
- prominenteGalician
- jól ismertHungarian
- terkemukaIndonesian
- prominente, rilevanteItalian
- 著名Japanese
- 저명한, 두드러진, 돌출된Korean
- izcils, redzamsLatvian
- whakarae, tāpuaMāori
- prominent, vooraanstaandDutch
- conhecido, proeminentePortuguese
- proeminentRomanian
- видный, заметный, выдающийся, выступающийRussian
- framståendeSwedish
- 突出Chinese
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