improminent

English

Etymology

im- +‎ prominent

Adjective

improminent (not comparable)

1. Not prominent.

   Synonyms: inconspicuous, undistinguished, unprotruding

   • 1829, David Walker, Walker’s Appeal‎^[1], Boston: for the author, page 7:

     And who can dispense with prejudice long enough to admit that we are men, notwithstanding our improminent noses and woolly heads, and believe that we feel for our fathers, mothers, wives and children, as well as they do for theirs.

   • 1916, William Dean Howells, Years of My Youth‎^[2], New York: Harper, Part 3, p. 172:

     I met both of these prominent men during my Columbus years, as an improminent young fellow-citizen might,

   • 1983, Nicholas Rescher, chapter 12, in Risk,‎^[3], Washington, DC: University Press of America, page 147:

     The state’s curtailment of personal liberty in the public interest began in small and improminent ways: riot acts to limit the damage from public disorders, quarantines to control spread of communicable diseases, building codes to diminish fire hazards, etc.