saliant

Adjective

salient (comparative more salient, superlative most salient)

1. Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
   • The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.

   Synonyms:

   pertinent, relevant, applicable, apposite, apt, ad rem, well-placed, felicitous, germane, in point

2. Prominent; conspicuous.
   • Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.1936, H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth

   Synonyms:

   attention-grabbing, flashy, high-profile, conspicuous, eye-catching, glossy, grabby, prominent

   Antonyms:

   obscure, trivial

3. (usually) Depicted in a leaping posture.
   • a lion salient
4. (often) Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
   • a salient angle

   Synonyms:

   outstanding, projecting, prominent, bulging, exserted, extuberant, jutting, obtrusive, projectory, promontorial

5. (obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
   • frogs and salient animals1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
6. (obsolete) Shooting or springing out; projecting.
   • He had in himſelf a ſalient, living ſpring of generous and manly action.1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles]...

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