inconspicuous

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Visually inconspicuous, that is, but evident to anyone with a good nose.

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  1. adjective Not readily noticeable.

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  • The man with the ugly face made himself inconspicuous--not in the press section--by standing against a wall THE auditorium was packed with a distinguished gathering. —  094 - The Men Vanished
  • But if Memsen was trying to look inconspicuous, then she had failed utterly. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • But fortunately there were so many in the visiting party and so many voices attempting to talk at once that Christine was able to find a window seat in the drawing room that made her relatively inconspicuous, and set about recapturing her long-held ambition to be an amused spectator of humanity rather than a participant in its follies. —  SlightlyDangerous
  • Visually inconspicuous, that is, but evident to anyone with a good nose. —  Express Milwaukee
  • The whole thing is inconspicuous, doesn't fall off and doesn't interfere with glasses-and if you have long hair, you can listen to the iPod completely undetected (hello, PTA meetings!). —  Pogue's Posts
 

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  1. from Late Latin inconspicuus, not conspicuous, from Latin in- privative + conspicuus, conspicuous: see conspicuous.
 

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/ɪnkənˈspɪkjuəs/
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