FLAGRANT: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Matching Terms: | | Flagrance, Flagrancy, flagrantly
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| | Definition: | | [adj] 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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | conspicuous, crying(a), egregious, glaring, gross, obvious, rank |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}.
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