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salient

 
Adjective salient has 3 senses
  1. outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, striking - 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"
    Antonyms: inconspicuous, invisible (indirect, via conspicuous)
  2. salient - (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
    Antonyms:
    re-entrant, reentrant
  3. salient - represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
    Antonym:
    horizontal (indirect, via vertical, inclined)
    Antonyms: vertical, perpendicular (indirect, via inclined, horizontal)
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