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rank

2  [rangk]
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–adjective, -er, -est.
1. growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
3. having an offensively strong smell or taste: a rank cigar.
4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
5. utter; absolute: a rank amateur; rank treachery.
6. highly offensive; disgusting: a rank sight of carnage.
7. grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent: rank language.
8. Slang. inferior; contemptible.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE ranc bold, proud; c. ON rakkr straight, bold

Related forms:
rankish, adjective
rankly, adverb
rankness, noun

Synonyms:
1. abundant, exuberant. 5. complete, sheer, entire. 6. repulsive, repellent. See flagrant. 7. foul.
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rank 2   (rāngk)   
adj.   rank·er, rank·est

  1. Growing profusely or with excessive vigor: rank vegetation in the jungle.

  2. Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile: rank earth.

  3. Strong and offensive in odor or flavor.

  4. Conspicuously offensive: rank treachery. See Synonyms at flagrant.

  5. Absolute; complete: a rank amateur; a rank stranger.


[Middle English ranc, from Old English, strong, overbearing; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
rank'ly adv., rank'ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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