| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fla·grant |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fl  gr nt |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible: a flagrant miscarriage of justice; flagrant cases of wrongdoing at the highest levels of government. See Usage Note at blatant. 2. Obsolete Flaming; blazing. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin flagrns, flagrant-, present participle of flagrre, to burn. See bhel-1 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | flagran·cy, flagrance —NOUN
flagrant·ly —ADVERB
| | SYNONYMS: | flagrant, glaring, gross, egregious, rank2 These adjectives refer to what is conspicuously bad or offensive. Flagrant applies to what is so offensive that it cannot escape notice: flagrant disregard for the law. What is glaring is blatantly and painfully manifest: a glaring error; glaring contradictions. Gross suggests a magnitude of offense or failing that cannot be condoned or forgiven: gross ineptitude; gross injustice. What is egregious is outrageously bad: an egregious lie. Rank implies that the term it qualifies is as indicated to an extreme, violent, or gross degree: rank stupidity; rank treachery.
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