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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.
EXPANDutter; absolute: a rank amateur; rank treachery.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English ranc bold, proud; cognate with Old Norse rakkr straight, bold
before 1000; Middle English; Old English ranc bold, proud; cognate with Old Norse rakkr straight, bold
Related forms
rank·ish, adjective
rank·ly, adverb
rank·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. abundant, exuberant. 5. complete, sheer, entire. 6. repulsive, repellent. See flagrant. 7. foul.
1. abundant, exuberant. 5. complete, sheer, entire. 6. repulsive, repellent. See flagrant. 7. foul.
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Word Origin & History
rank
O.E. ranc "proud, overbearing, showy," from P.Gmc. *rankaz (cf. Dan. rank "right, upright," Ger. rank "slender," O.N. rakkr "straight, erect"), perhaps from PIE *reg- "to stretch, straighten" (see right). In ref. to plant growth, "vigorous, luxuriant," it is recorded from
EXPAND mid-13c. Sense evolved in M.E. to "large and coarse" (c.1300), then, via notion of "excessive and unpleasant," to "having a strong bad smell" (1520s). Much used 16c. as a pejorative intensive (cf. rank folly). This is possibly the source of the verb meaning "to reveal another's guilt" (1929, underworld slang), and that of "to harass, abuse," 1934, U.S. black dialect, though this also may be from the role of the activity in establishing social hierarchy (from rank (n.)).
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