"salient" meaning in English

See salient in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈseɪ.li.ənt/ [US, UK], /ˈsæɪ.li.ənt/ [Australia] Audio: en-us-salient.ogg [US], en-au-salient.ogg [Australia] Forms: salient [positive], more salient [comparative], most salient [superlative]
Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If something is salient, it is noticeable or important. Synonyms: pertinent, relevant
    Sense id: simple-salient-en-adj-uzBFovfR
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "salient",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more salient",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most salient",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "sa‧lient",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "If something is salient, it is noticeable or important."
      ],
      "id": "simple-salient-en-adj-uzBFovfR",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pertinent"
        },
        {
          "word": "relevant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsæɪ.li.ənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-salient.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-salient.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "salient"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "salient",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more salient",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most salient",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "sa‧lient",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "If something is salient, it is noticeable or important."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pertinent"
        },
        {
          "word": "relevant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsæɪ.li.ənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-salient.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-salient.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "salient"
}

Download raw JSONL data for salient meaning in English (0.7kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-29 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.