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salient
salient is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
- 2intransitive verb
Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
- 3intransitive verb
Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
- 4intransitive verb
Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
- 5intransitive verb
Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
- 6adjective
A salient angle or part; a projection.
- 7noun
(military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
- 8adjective
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"
- 9adjective
represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
- 10adjective
(of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
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