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inconspicuous (iou) and danger(1) (iou)


inconspicuous (iou)



inconspicuous adjective. E17.
[from Latin inconspicuus (formed as IN-3 + CONSPICUOUS) + -OUS.]
Unable to be seen or perceived; invisible, indiscernible. E17-L18.
Not easily seen or noticed; not prominent or striking; spec. in Botany (of flowers) small, and green or pale. E19.
H. W. Bates The majority of forest-trees in equatorial Brazil have small and inconspicuous flowers. M. Amsterdam He started looking around for a place to throw it, that would be inconspicuous.
inconspicuously adverb M17.
inconspicuousness noun E17.

danger(1) (iou)



danger noun. ME.
[Anglo-Norman da(u)nger, Old French dangier (mod. danger) from Proto-Romance, from Latin domnus, dominus lord, master: see -ER2.]
Power of a lord or master, jurisdiction; power to harm or injure. ME-M19.
in a person's danger at the mercy of or under obligation to a person.
fig.: Shakespeare Hamlet Keep you..Out of the shot and danger of desire.
b. Liability (to loss, punishment, etc.). LME-L17.
Difficulty (made or raised); reluctance; chariness. ME-E16.
Mischief, harm, damage. LME-L16.
Liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk, peril. Also, an instance or cause of this; an unwelcome possibility that. LME.
in danger of likely to incur, do, etc. out of danger unlikely to die of a present illness or injury.
Tolkien The desire to eat hobbits, had seemed the chief danger in Gollum. M. Drabble I sensed danger on every side.
b. The position or indication of a railway signal directing stoppage or caution. M19.
Comb.: danger angle Nautical the angle enclosed by lines drawn from two known points to the point marking the limit of safe approach for a vessel to a danger to navigation; danger line a real or imaginary line marking the division between safety and danger; danger list a (notional) list of patients (in a hospital) whose lives are in danger (chiefly in on the danger list, dangerously ill); danger man someone perceived as posing a particular threat (in sport etc.); danger money a payment made beyond basic wages for dangerous work; danger signal an indicator of impending danger, esp., on a railway, a red light or a semaphore signal in the 'on' position.
dangerful adjective dangerous E16-E19.
dangerless adjective (now rare) without danger LME.
dangersome adjective (obsolete exc. dial.) dangerous M16.