Egregious

Definition: Egregious

Egregious

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "egregious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Etymology: Egregious \E*gre"gious\, adjective. [Latin expression egregius; literally, separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; out grex, gregis, herd. See Gregarious.]. (references)

Synonyms: Egregious

Absurdity

Adjective: absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic, punning.

Exaggeration

Adjective: exaggerated; Verb: overwrought; bombastic; (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying.

Importance

Adjective: important; of importance; Noun: momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty; (influential); of note; (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful.

Unconformity

Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.

Crosswords: Egregious

Books

• Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels (reference)

• More Anguished English/an Expose of Embarrassing Excruciating, and Egregious Errors in English (reference)

• VIOLENCE: The roleplaying game of egregious and repulsive bloodshed (New Style) (reference)

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Business

The effects of the lack of due process are particularly egregious in death penalty cases. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

Directives to prevent FLG protests at all costs has resulted in many egregious abuses. (references)

Economic History

Oman

In the past, Sultan Qaboos has dismissed some ministers and senior government officials for egregious corruption. (references)

Bolivia

The most egregious cases have involved individuals employing the legal system to harass firms or to exact exorbitant payments. (references)

Human Rights

China

The lack of due process is particularly egregious in death penalty cases. (references)

Cameroon

The organization worked with the prosecutor's office to secure the release of approximately 100 of the most egregious cases. (references)

Brazil

The law allows for civil prosecutors to review the most egregious cases, while less prominent cases are reviewed by the police force itself. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

Police officers committed numerous serious human rights abuses and were seldom disciplined, even for the most egregious actions. (references)

Nigeria

In the year's most egregious case, army soldiers reportedly killed approximately 200 unarmed civilians and destroyed much of the town of Zaki Biam in Benue State in apparent retaliation for the killing of 19 soldiers. (references)

Political Rights

Cameroon

Election irregularities especially were egregious in opposition strongholds, where boycotting opposition activists chose not to be present to monitor the voting count. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

MINUGUA singled out the Third Judge for Labor for egregious delays in legal procedures stemming from a dispute involving a bank workers union dating to 1997. The Judge took more than 3 years to convoke the parties before a conciliation tribunal, which should have taken place within 36 hours. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "egregious": egregious blunder. Additional references.

Albanian

tepër i kënaq, skandaloz (flagrant, scandalous), i jashtëzakonshëm (emergency, exceeding, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, sole, stupendous, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual, wonderful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاضح (disgraceful, flagrant, glaring, gross, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нечуван (outrageous, ungodly, unheard of, unprecedented), ненадминат (all-time, consummate, matchless, surpassing, unapproachable, unbeatable, unbeaten, unbroken, unequalled, unmatched, unrivalled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed), превъзходен (capital, excellent, incompatible, nailing, pre eminent, rare, super, superb, superlative, swell, tiptop, top-hole, topping, transcendent, wizard). (various references)

Chinese 

震惊 (Astound, Astounded, Astounding, stun, stunned, stunning). (various references)

Czech

vynikající (accomplished, amazing, beautiful, champion, chance, delicious, eminent, excellent, exquisite, fine, magnificent, notable, outstanding, preeminent, prize, prominent, star, sterling, superlative, wonderful). (various references)

Farsi 

فاحش (Heavy, Tremendous), نمایان (Dominant, Ostensible, Seeming, Visible), انگشت نما (Conspicuous, Gazingstock), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous), برجسته (Boss, Dominant, Eminent, Illustrious, Laureate, Masterwork, Outstanding, Palmary, Palmy, Predominant, Prime, Profile, Prominent, Saleint, Swell, Tyupical). (various references)

French

énorme. (various references)

German

ungeheuer (atrocious, colossal, dreadful, egregiously, enormous, enormously, giant, huge, hugely, immense, immensely, infinitely, inordinate, mammoth, monster, monsters, monstrosities, monstrous, monstrously, monumental, ogre, ogress, outrageous, prodigious, prodigiously, terror, tremendous), unerhört (enormous, incredible, outrageous, outrageously, unconscionable, undreamt, unheard of, unprecedented). (various references)

Greek 

ανήκουστοσ (shocking, unheard, unprecedented), διαβόητοσ (arrant, notorious). (various references)

Hungarian

hallatlan (unheard of, unheard-of, unprecedented), minden képzeletet felülmúló. (various references)

Italian

egregio (dear, excellent). (various references)

Manx

jiarg- (arrant, crass, gross, rank). (various references)

Pig Latin

egregiousay.(various references)

Portuguese

escandaloso (flagrant, fruity, outrageous, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shocking), egrégio, completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole). (various references)

Romanian

extraordinar (amazing, arch, astonishing, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, prodigious, proud, rare, rattling, remarkable, special, striking, terrible, tremendous, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never, wonderful), nemaipomenit (abject, bright, bully, lovely, lumme, magnificent, nut, priceless, sad, tremendous, unbelievable, unheard of, unparalleled, unprecedented). (various references)

Russian 

вопиющий (clamant, crying, flagrant, rampageous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nečuven (outrageous, ungodly, unheard of). (various references)

Spanish

escandaloso (aggravating, disgraceful, disorderly, flagrant, hearty, licentious, loud, monstrous, noisy, notorious, outrageous, scandalous, shocking, sinful, uncontrollable, undisciplined, uproarious), enorme (cyclopean, enormous, great, gross, heinous, huge, immense, jumbo, killing, king size, marvellous, marvelous, massive, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, prodigious, swingeing, thundering, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking), egregio, grandísimo (big, great, monster, well done, whopping). (various references)

Swedish

oerhörd (enormous, exorbitant, prodigious, unheard of). (various references)

Thai

ชั่วร้าย (black, evil, fiendish, hellish, rapacious, sinful). (various references)

Turkish

yaman (Dandy), muazzam (colossal, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), dikkat çekici (arresting, conspicuous, eye-catching, marked, remarkable, salient, signal, spectacular, striking, well-marked), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched). (various references)

Ukrainian

винятковий (especial, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, only, particular, preternatural, single, singular, surpassing), видатний (big time, conspicuous, eminent, extant, laureate, leading, notable, noted, only, outstanding, pre eminent, prominent, remarkable, shining, signal, stellar, transcendent, walloping), несосвітенний (engrained, unconscionable), найгрубіший, надзвичайний (abysmal, dense, dreadful, exceeding, exceptional, extreme, prodigious, snorting, uncommon, unusual, water, woundy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xuất sắc (capital, capitally, classy, clinking, crack, distinguished, excellent, jim-dandy, noble, prime, shining, top-notch), quá xá (consummate, inordinate), đại (almighty, double-dyed, downright, unmitigated). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "egregious": egregiously, egregiousness, egregiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Egregious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agregious, eegregious, egargious, eggregious, egrecious, egregeous, egregions, egregiou, egregiuos, egregius, egregous, egregrious, egregrous, egreious, egrerious, egretious, egriegious, egrigious, engregious, eregious, gregious, irriguous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gougers, greiges, soggier.

-3 letters: eggers, erugos, gigues, gorges, gouger, gouges, gregos, greige, grouse, guiros, gurges, orgies, regius, rogues, rouges, rugose, soiree.

-4 letters: egers, egger, erose, erugo, euros, gigue, giros, goers, gores, gorge, gorse, gouge, grees, grego, grigs, grogs, grues, guiro, guise, gurge, ogees, ogres, osier, ourie, reges, reuse, rogue, roues, rouge, rouse, segue.

+2 letters: egregiously.

+4 letters: demagogueries, egregiousness.

+5 letters: gregariousness.