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Definition: Blatant |
BlatantAdjective1. Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "open disregard of the law"; "open family strife"; "open hostility"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion". 2. Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blatant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Blatant \Bla"tant\, adjective. [Compare to Bleat.]. (references) |
Synonyms: BlatantSynonyms: blazing (adj), clamant (adj), clamorous (adj), conspicuous (adj), open (adj), strident (adj), vociferous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imbecility Folly | Fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered;. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blatant |
| English words defined with "blatant": ballyhoo, blatantly, blazing ♦ conspicuous ♦ hoopla, hype ♦ open ♦ plug ♦ retiring ♦ unassertive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blatant": Calidore. (references) |
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Screenplays | This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Cause It's blatant that I've feeling you (Honey; performing artist: Mariah Carey) | |
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 | Ding; ring; big; blaring; blatant; blustering; boisterous; booming; cacophonous; clamorous; crashing; deafening; deep; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; emphatic; forte; full; full-mouthed; fulminating; heavy; high-sounding; intense; loud-voiced; lusty; obstre. | | Clamor; clamoring; blare; blaring; blatant; blustering; boisterous; booming; cacophonous; clamorous; crashing; deafening; deep; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; emphatic; forte; full; full-mouthed; fulminating; heavy; high-sounding; intense; loud-voiced; lust. |
| Alert; shrill; acute; argute; blaring; blatant; cacophonous; clanging; clangorous; deafening; discordant; ear-piercing; ear-splitting; harsh; high; metallic; noisy; penetrating; piercing; piping; raucous; screeching; sharp; strident; thin; treble. | ||
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Civil Liberties | Albania | The Law on Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms provides for freedom of speech and of the press and the media is active and unrestrained; however, there are serious, fundamental problems with the blatant use of the media for political purposes. (references) |
Economic History | China | Trademark and copyright violations are blatant and widespread. (references) |
Bahrain | Officials have been dismissed for blatant corruption, but it is never so stated officially; no one has been tried in court for corruption. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | However, high-ranking officials in the public defender's office complained that they continued to encounter blatant judicial corruption and the willingness of several judges to sentence defendants without a public defender present. (references) |
Minorities | Bahamas | However, reports of ethnic violence or blatant discrimination against legally resident Haitians are scarce. (references) |
Hungary | In 2000 the Council of Europe's Commission Against Racism and Intolerance published a report that criticized the blatant anti-Semitism in some media, in Parliament, and in society. (references) | |
Political Rights | Equatorial Guinea | Most opposition parties, claiming that it was futile to run amidst such blatant corruption, boycotted the election. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blatant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blatant" is used about 345 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 345 | 15,401 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blatant": blatant injustice ♦ blatant lie. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
konig blatant | 11 |
blatant | 9 |
blatant finger | 2 |
beat blatant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blatant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhurmëmadh (noisy, rowdy), llafazan (babbler, big mouth, blab, blabber, chatterbox, chatterer, chatty, diffusive, flibbertigibbet, gabber, garrulous, gasbag, gossip, gossipmonger, gossipy, long-tongued, loose-tongued, magpie, mouther, popinjay, prattler, rattle-box, rattler, rattletrap, sieve, spieler, storyteller, talebearer, talkative, tattler, tattletale, telltale, windbag). (various references) | |
Arabic | وقح (abrasive, barefaced, bold, brazen, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, rude, sassy, saucy, scamp, shameless, smart), سمج (lumpish), صخاب (clamorous, loudmouth, vociferous), صارخ (crying, flamboyant, fortissimo, garish, gaudy, jarring, loud, lurid, noisy, outrageous, rank, sharp, showy, staring, trumpery, violent), صراخي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крещящ (clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glaring, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), просташки (caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, rude, savage, swinish, tasteless, underbred, unrefined, vulgar). (various references) | |
Chinese | 大胆 (Audacious, Bold, Boldness, Daring). (various references) | |
Czech | dotìrný (interfering, intrusive, molestful, obtrusive, officious), řvavý (garish, gaudy, jarring). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرسروصدا (Loudmouthed, Noisy, Obstreperous, Riproaring, Rowdy, Scrimmager, Unquiet, Uproarious, Vociferous), خودنما (Airy, Cocky, Jaunty, Ostentatious, Perky, Priggish, Showy), خشن (Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), رسوا (Ignominious, Infamous, Opprobrious), شلوغ کننده . (various references) | |
French | flagrant, fieffé, criant. (various references) | |
German | lärmend (blatantly, clamorous, fussing, making noise, making-noise, noisily, noising, noisy, roistering, uproarious, uproariously, vociferous). (various references) | |
Greek | κραυγαλέοσ (vociferous), χυδαίοσ (coarse, gross, indelicate, lawbred, scurrile, vulgar, vulgarian), χονδροειδής (coarse, crude), θωρυβώδησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | רעש י (noisy, riotous, rip roaring, rowdy, sensational), צעקן (loudmouth, noisy, shouter, yeller). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zajos (bodacious, boisterous, clamorous, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rattling, to lead a rollicking life, vocal, vociferous), otromba (bumpkin, gross, ungainly, vulgar), nagyhangú (clamorous, claptrap, grandiloquent, mouthy, oratorical, pretentious, rotund), égbekiáltó (crying, flagrant, outrageous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ribut (ado, boisterious, brawl, din, hectic). (various references) | |
Italian | vistoso (catchy, considerable, dashing, flashy, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, important, large, loud, meretricious, noisy, showy, tawdry, trumpery), sfacciato (barefaced, bold, brazen, cheeky, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, jackanapes, overbold, sassy, saucy), rumoroso (clamant, loud, noisy, obstreperous, plangent, rackety, Randy, spoffish), chiassoso (boisterous, gaudy, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, Randy, rowdy), appariscente (showy, striking, trumpery). (various references) | |
Korean | 소란스러운. (various references) | |
Manx | kiaullaneagh (bell-like, clamorous, hectoring, loud, loud-mouthed, orchestral, randy, robustious, roistering, squealing, stormy, strident; roisterer, vociferous), foshlit (agape, ajar, downright; free-spoken, exploded; overt, exposed, extrovert; forthcoming; blank, extrovert; forthcoming; blank as credit, liable, open, open-necked, patent, unfastened). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atantblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ruidoso (altisonant, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rampageous, rattling, roistering, uproarious, viatic, windy). (various references) | |
Romanian | strigãtor (crying, flashy, scandalous), gãlãgios (blustering, brawler, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisy, rampageous, Randy, rattling, rioter, riotous, rip roaring, roisterer, rowdy, unruly, vociferous), ţipãtor (crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references) | |
Russian | крикливый (clamorous, loudmouthed, noisy, screamy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nesumnjiv (certain, indubitable, questionless, undoubted, unquestionable, unsuspected, unsuspicious), kreštav (screamy, screechy, shrill, squeaky), javan (open, public). (various references) | |
Spanish | ruidoso (loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rowdy, rumbustious, vocal, wheezy), llamativo (aggressive, arresting, catchpenny, effective, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, obtrusive, screaming, showy, staring, startling, striking), evidente (apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, clear, distinct, evident, manifest, noticeable, obvious, open and shut, overt, palpable, patent, plain, plain as a pikestaff, positive, self evident, self-apparent), estridente (brassy, harsh, jangling, loud, raucous, screaming, shrill, strident, unpleasant-sounding), descarado (barefaced, bold, bold-faced, bounder, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, cheeky, forward, free, fresh, hussy, impertinent, impudent, nervy, overbold, perky, sassy, saucy). (various references) | |
Swedish | skränig (vociferous). (various references) | |
Turkish | besbelli olan, bariz (apparent, as plain as a pikestaff, avowed, blazing, conspicuous, conspicuously, gross, pronounced, sharp), yaygaracı (clamorous, fussy, noisy, obstreperous, squaller), gürültücü (boisterous, bouncing, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rioter, ripsnorter, roisterer, rough, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | явний (apparent, bald-faced, barefaced, broad, declared, evident, Frank, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, overt, patent, perspicuous, pronounced, unequivocal, visible), крикливий (clamant, florid, jazz, loud-mouthed, tawdry), вульгарний (banal, caddish, coarse, gross, low, low down, non-u, parvenu, raffish, unladylike, vapid, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hiển nhiên (apodeictic, apodictic, apodictical, apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, evident, flagrant, glaring, glaringly, glary, incontrovertible, manifest, naked, notorious, obvious, patent, patently, self-apparent, self-evident, tactile, tangible, visibly, well-marked), hay l m om xòm r nh r nh, hay la lối, hay kêu la. (various references) | |
Welsh | stwrllyd, haerllug (audacious, brazen, importunate, impudent), digywilydd (audacious, impudent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | blatire. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blatant": blatantly. (additional references) | |
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"Blatant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abattant, Balawat, baltant, balwant, Battant, Bavant, belauan, blantant, blarant, blatan, blatane, blaten, blatent, blatnt, Blaton, Blatta, blatunt, blutant, bulagat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blatant" (pronounced blā"tunt) |
| 6 | -l ā" t u n t | latent. |
| 4 | -t u n t | accountant, adjutant, assistant, combatant, competent, concomitant, consistent, constant, consultant, contestant, important, impotent, inadvertent, decongestant, disinfectant, distant, existent, exorbitant, expectant, extant, exultant, hesitant, incompetent, inconsistent, inhabitant, insistent, instant, intermittent, irritant, militant, mutant, noncombatant, nonexistent, omnipotent, patent, penitent, persistent, pollutant, potent, protestant, reluctant, repentant, resistant, resultant, surfactant, unimportant, unrepentant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-n-t-t" | |
-2 letters: alant, banal, natal, tabla. | |
-3 letters: alan, alba, anal, anta, baal, batt, blat, tala. | |
-4 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, alt, ana, ant, att, baa, bal, ban, bat, lab, lat, nab, tab, tan, tat. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, al, an, at, ba, la, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-n-t-t" | |
+2 letters: battalion, blatantly. | |
+3 letters: attainable, battalions, patentable, tabulating, tabulation, tenantable. | |
+4 letters: battlewagon, detonatable, entablature, intractable, intractably, rattlebrain, substantial, tabulations. | |
+5 letters: battlewagons, blastulation, contrastable, entablatures, habilitating, habilitation, labanotation, rattlebrains, rehabilitant, stainability, substantials, substantival, trainability, translatable, transmutable, unattainable, unpatentable. | |
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