Crossword-Solution: SALIENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Salient | v. i. | Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. |
| Salient | v. i. | Shooting out or up; springing; projecting. |
| Salient | v. i. | Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable. |
| Salient | v. i. | Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion. |
| Salient | v. i. | Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient. |
| Salient | a. | A salient angle or part; a projection. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SALIENT | anagram | ATLIENS, ELASTIN, ENTAILS, NAILSET, SALTINE, SILENTA, SLAINTE, STANIEL, STEALIN |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SALIENT (5)
The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.
When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
Rokoff had partially read it, but Tarzan knew that no one could remember the salient facts and figures it held which made it of real value to an enemy of France.
Throughout the rest of the week, at every hour of the day, Trina asked herself the same question: “Do I love him? Do I really love him? Is this what love is like?” As she recalled McTeague--recalled his huge, square-cut head, his salient jaw, his shock of yellow hair, his heavy, lumbering body, his slow wits--she found little to admire in him beyond his physical strength, and at such moments she shook her head decisively.
Knight then saw that she was bleeding from a severe cut in her wrist, apparently where it had descended upon a salient corner of the lead-work.
Quotes with SALIENT (3)
This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he's surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand.
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, ‘here and now,’ without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 68 times in crossword archives (1948–2023).