Obscure
Obscure adjective - Not widely known.
Usage example: he's an obscure artist now, but he's sure to be famous someday
Prominent
Prominent adjective - Likely to attract attention.
Usage example: an attorney who occupies a prominent position in the town's social hierarchy
Nearby Words: prominence, prominently
Both words in one sentence
- Animal Man has become a more prominent character since then, but the others are still pretty obscure even today.
Source: Comic-Book Limbo - Topics range from writer/illustrator Edward Gorey to philosophy to prominent (and obscure) works of Japanese and English literature.
Source: Genius Bonus / Anime and Manga - Compare with Ascended Extra, which is done to obscure characters to make them ostensibly prominent.
Source: Character Exaggeration
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