salient

Examples

• All

• In the dependency era, however, these issues are less salient than people's problems on the road to adulthood—illegitimacy, educational failure, and crime.

  Academic text (1991)

• People tend to remember the most emotionally salient and the final experience of, of, of of one particular event.

• Specifically, it appears that when there is a strong executive strategy for ratification, interest group positions may be less salient for the final outcome.

  Academic text (2005)

• So there aren't a lot of people talking about some of the issues that aren't as salient.

  Blog text (22)

• In continuous reading, however, such discrete reinforcers may not be salient.

  Academic text (2015)

• The neighborhood may simply be a less salient social environment for adolescents because adolescents spend a majority of their time in school and build their social networks there.

  Academic text (2013)

• The architect designed a salient corner on the building to create a dramatic effect.

• They added a salient balcony to the house that offered stunning views of the garden.

• The engineer highlighted the salient features of the structure to emphasize its unique design.

Antonyms

R

recessed

1 5.6

Set back into a wall to make a small shelf or seat

R

re-entrant

• Specialized

9.6

An angle that points inward and makes a notch in a shape

Compounds

S

salient angle

• Specialized

8.6

An angle inside a shape that sticks out and is less than 180 degrees

How Projecting

jutting

4.8

projecting

4.2

salient

• Specialized

1 7.7

protruding

4.2

flush

3 6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology