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bla·tant    Audio Help   [bleyt-nt] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.brazenly obvious; flagrant: a blatant error in simple addition; a blatant lie.
2.offensively noisy or loud; clamorous: blatant radios.
3.tastelessly conspicuous: the blatant colors of the dress.

[Origin: coined by Spenser in 1596; cf. L blatīre to babble, prate, blaterāre to talk foolishly, babble]

bla·tan·cy, noun
bla·tant·ly, adverb

1. unmistakable, overt, undeniable, obtrusive.
1. subtle, hidden, inconspicuous.
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bla·tant    Audio Help   (blāt'nt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Unpleasantly loud and noisy: "There are those who find the trombones blatant and the triangle silly, but both add effective color" (Musical Heritage Review). See Synonyms at vociferous.
  2. Usage Problem Totally or offensively conspicuous or obtrusive: a blatant lie.


[From Latin blatīre, to blab (on the model of words such as rampant).]

bla'tan·cy n., bla'tant·ly adv.
Usage Note: It is not surprising that blatant and flagrant are often confused, since the words have overlapping meanings. Both attribute conspicuousness and offensiveness to certain acts. Blatant emphasizes the failure to conceal the act. Flagrant, on the other hand, emphasizes the serious wrongdoing inherent in the offense. Certain contexts may admit either word depending on what is meant: a violation of human rights might be either blatant or flagrant. If it was committed with contempt for public scrutiny, it is blatant. If its barbarity was monstrous, it is flagrant. · Blatant is sometimes used to mean simply "obvious," as in the blatant danger of such an approach, but this use has not been established and is widely considered an error.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
blatant 
1596, in blatant beast, coined by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queen" to describe a thousand-tongued monster representing slander, probably from L. blatire "to babble." It entered general use 1656, as "noisy in an offensive and vulgar way;" the sense of "obvious, glaringly conspicuous" is from 1889.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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blatant

adjective
1. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" 
2. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
blatant [ˈbleitənt] adjective
very obvious; shameless
Example: a blatant lie; blatant disrespect
Arabic: فاضِحٌ، صارِخٌ
Chinese (Simplified): 显眼的
Chinese (Traditional): 顯眼的
Czech: nestoudný, bezostyšný
Danish: åbenlys; utilsløret
Dutch: overduidelijk, schaamteloos
Estonian: jultunud
Finnish: räikeä
French: flagrant
German: schreiend
Greek: κραυγαλέος, σκανδαλώδης
Hungarian: égbekiáltó
Icelandic: augljós; óskammfeilinn
Indonesian: tak tahu malu, terang- terangan
Italian: vistoso, flagrante
Japanese: 厚かましい
Korean: 명백한
Latvian: uzkrītošs; kliedzošs; acīm redzams
Lithuanian: įžūlus, begėdiškas, akivaizdus
Norwegian: skrikende, påtrengende; grov, utilslørt
Polish: oczywisty, jawny, rażący
Portuguese (Brazil): flagrante
Portuguese (Portugal): descarado
Romanian: fla­grant; strigător la cer
Russian: вопиющий
Slovak: očividný, do očí bijúci
Slovenian: očiten; nesramen
Spanish: descarado
Swedish: uppenbar, påfallande, flagrant
Turkish: apaçık, aşikâr
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Blatant

Bla"tant\, a. [Cf. Bleat.] Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." --R. H. Dana.

A monster, which the blatant beast men call. --Spenser.

Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. --W. Irving.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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