| 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. |
