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| 1. | shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error. |
| 2. | notorious; scandalous: a flagrant crime; a flagrant offender. |
| 3. | Archaic. blazing, burning, or glowing. |
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fla·gran·cy, flagrance, fla·grant·ness, noun
fla·grant·ly, adverb
—Synonyms 2. disgraceful, monstrous, egregious. Flagrant, glaring, gross, outrageous, rank are adjectives suggesting extreme offensiveness. Flagrant, with a root sense of flaming or flaring, suggests evil or immorality so evident that it cannot be ignored or overlooked: a flagrant violation of the law. Glaring, meaning “shining brightly,” is similar to flagrant in emphasizing conspicuousness but usually lacks the imputation of immorality: a glaring error in computing the interest. Gross, which basically signifies excessive size, is even more negative in implication than the foregoing two terms, suggesting a mistake or impropriety of major proportions: a gross miscarriage of justice. Outrageous describes acts so far beyond the limits of decent behavior or accepted standards as to be totally insupportable: an outrageous abuse of the public trust. Rank, with its suggestion of bad odor, describes open offensiveness of the most objectionable kind, inviting total and unalloyed disapprobation: rank dishonesty, stinking to high heaven; Only rank stupidity would countenance such a step.
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[Latin flagrāns, flagrant-, present participle of flagrāre, to burn; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.] fla'gran·cy, fla'grance n., fla'grant·ly adv. Synonyms: 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. |
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flagrant
c.1500, "resplendent," from L. flagrantem (nom. flagrans) "burning," prp. of flagrare "to burn," from L. root *flag-, corresponding to PIE *bhleg- (cf. Gk. phlegein "to burn, scorch," O.E. blæc "black"). Sense of "glaringly offensive" first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase in flagrante delicto "red-handed," lit. "with the crime still blazing."
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| conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying] |
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flagrant [ˈfleigrənt] adjective
(usually of something bad) very obvious; easily seen
Example: flagrant injustice
Example: flagrant injustice
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A*tro"cious\, a. [L. atrox, atrocis, cruel, fierce: cf. F. atroce.]1. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds. 2. Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. --De Quincey. 3. Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers. [Obs.] --Cheyne. Syn: Atrocious, Flagitious, Flagrant. Usage: Flagitious points to an act as grossly wicked and vile; as, a flagitious proposal. Flagrant marks the vivid impression made upon the mind by something strikingly wrong or erroneous; as, a flagrant misrepresentation; a flagrant violation of duty. Atrocious represents the act as springing from a violent and savage spirit. If Lord Chatham, instead of saying "the atrocious crime of being a young man," had used either of the other two words, his irony would have lost all its point, in his celebrated reply to Sir Robert Walpole, as reported by Dr. Johnson. -- A*tro"cious*ly, adv. -- A*tro"cious*ness, n.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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Con*fla"grant\, a. [L. conflagrans, p. pr. of conflagrare; con- + flagrare to blaze. See Flagrant.] Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." --Milton.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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Fla"gran*cy\, n.; pl. Flagrancies. [L. flagrantia a burning. See Flagrant.]1. A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. --Bacon. 2. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. --Steele.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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Fla"grant\, a. [L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. ?: cf. F. flagrant. Cf. Flame, Phlox.]1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. --Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. --De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. --Hooker. 2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. --Palfrey. 3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked. Syn: Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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Flame\ (fl[=a]m), n. [OE. flame, flaume, flaumbe, OF. flame, flambe, F. flamme, fr. L. flamma, fr. flamma, fr. flagrare to burn. See Flagrant, and cf. Flamneau, Flamingo.]1. A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire. 2. Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." --Milton. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. --Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. --Pope. 3. Ardor of affection; the passion of love. --Coleridge. 4. A person beloved; a sweetheart. --Thackeray. Syn: Blaze; brightness; ardor. See Blaze. Flame bridge, a bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. Flame color, brilliant orange or yellow. --B. Jonson. Flame engine, an early name for the gas engine. Flame manometer, an instrument, invented by Koenig, to obtain graphic representation of the action of the human vocal organs. See Manometer. Flame reaction (Chem.), a method of testing for the presence of certain elements by the characteristic color imparted to a flame; as, sodium colors a flame yellow, potassium violet, lithium crimson, boracic acid green, etc. Cf. Spectrum analysis, under Spectrum. Flame tree (Bot.), a tree with showy scarlet flowers, as the Rhododendron arboreum in India, and the Brachychiton acerifolium of Australia.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Flagrant
Ful"gent\, a. [L. fulgens, -entis, p. pr. of fulgere to flash, glitter, shine, akin to Gr. ? to burn. See Phlox, Flagrant.] Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent. Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. --Glower.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Flagrant
Flair\ (fl[^a]r), n. [OE. flaireodor, fr. OF. & F. flair, fr. OF. flairier, F. flairer, to smell, LL. flagrare for L. fragrare. See Flagrant.]1. Smell; odor. [Obs.] 2. Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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