sticking out

Questions about sticking out

What does sticking out mean?

sticking out means "extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary".

What is another word for sticking out?

Close synonyms include jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sticking out a common word?

sticking out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.