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Adjective salient has 3 senses
- 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)
- salient - (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
Antonyms: re-entrant, reentrant
- 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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