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Definition: Flagrant |
FlagrantAdjective1. 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 "flagrant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: FlagrantSynonyms: crying(a) (adj), egregious (adj), glaring (adj), gross (adj), rank (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Manifestation | Flagrant; notorious; (public); arrant; stark staring; unshaded, glaring. |
Publication | Adjective: published;Verb: current; (news); in circulation, public; notorious; flagrant, arrant; open; trumpet-tongued; encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory; exoteric. |
Vice | Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flagrant |
| English words defined with "flagrant": Flagrancy, flagrantly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flagrant": Soldiers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flagrant": Phlegm. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flagrant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (flagrant, gross), French (blatant, flagrant, fragrant, glaring, great, gross, rank), German (flagrant), Romanian (crying, flagrant, glaring, gross), Swedish (crying, flagrant, gross). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That is flagrant false advertising (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Flagrant délit (1930) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | The presence of many talented programmers, combined with weak International Property Rights (IPR) legislation and enforcement, have encouraged piracy and flagrant misuse of software. (references) |
Ghana | The new regime cited Nkrumah's flagrant abuse of individual rights and liberties, his regime's corrupt, oppressive, and dictatorial practices, and the rapidly deteriorating economy as the principal reasons for its action. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | More often the HNP simply fires officers guilty of flagrant abuses. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In one of the most flagrant causes the court decided that the prosecution was barred by the statute which limits prosecutions for fraud to two years. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Flagrant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.50% of the time. "Flagrant" is used about 80 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) | 97.5% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
choclair flagrant | 11 |
flagrant | 5 |
define flagrant | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flagrant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | flagrant (gross), skandaloz (egregious, scandalous). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاضح (disgraceful, egregious, glaring, gross, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful), فظيع (abominable, atrocious, detestable, gross, hideous, horrible, horrid, monstrous, outrageous, shocking, terrible, ugly), مشهر, أثيم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скандален (glaring, infamous, monstrous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shocking), флагрантен (rank), очебиен (conspicuous, gross, outstanding, pronounced, remarkable, salient, transparent). (various references) | |
Chinese | 明目 胆. (various references) | |
Czech | flagrantní (gross), křiklavý (crude, garish, gaudy, glaring, jazzy, loud, startling, vociferous). (various references) | |
Dutch | op heter daad (flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict, in the act, red-handed), heterdaad (flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict, in the act, red-handed). (various references) | |
Finnish | räikeä (garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh), huutava (crying, glaring). (various references) | |
French | flagrant, embaumé. (various references) | |
German | schamlos (barefaced, brazen, brazen faced, brazenly, indecent, infamous, obscene, shameless, unashamed, unblushing, unblushingly, unembarrassed, wanton, wantonly). (various references) | |
Greek | καταφωρόσ (glaring), σκανδαλώδησ (scandalous), στυγερόσ (atrocious, heinous), απαίσιοσ (abominable, dreadful, execrable, ghastly, horrid, ominous, sinister, stinking). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחפיר (disgraceful, grievous, ignominius, inglorious, shameful), מביש (degrading, disgraceful, ignominius, inglorious, scandalous, shameful), שערורי (scandalous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | botrányos (crying shame, outrageous, scandalous, shocking). (various references) | |
Italian | flagrante (obvious). (various references) | |
Korean | 극악무도한. (various references) | |
Manx | neunearagh (audacious). (various references) | |
Norwegian | åpenbar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agrantflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flagrante (glaring, gross), notório (arrant, celebrated, common, glaring, notorious, open, overt, palpable, proverbial, public), escandaloso (egregious, fruity, outrageous, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shocking). (various references) | |
Romanian | flagrant (crying, glaring, gross), notoriu (arrant, notorious, well known), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar). (various references) | |
Russian | вопиющий (clamant, crying, egregious, rampageous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vapijući (crying), nepodnošljiv (insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurable). (various references) | |
Spanish | flagrante. (various references) | |
Swedish | upprörande (agitating, iniquitous, outrageous, revolting, shocking, upsetting), uppenbar (apparent, clear, distinct, evident, manifest, obvious, overt, palpable, patent, plain). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่อื้อฉาว, ที่ปรากฏชั". (various references) | |
Turkish | rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), göze batan (annoying, flamboyant, glaring, noisy, ostensible), aşikâr (apparent, clear, distinct, evident, evidential, evidentiary, explicit, manifest, overt, patent, perspicuous, unconcealed), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), обурливий (crying, disgraceful, exasperating, outrageous, rampageous, ridiculous, scandalous), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), палаючий (ablaze, aflame, ardent, burning, fervid, flaming, glowing, lurid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | r nh r nh (blazing, downright, emphatic, glaring, glaringly, glary, tactile), hiển nhiên (apodeictic, apodictic, apodictical, apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, blatant, evident, glaring, glaringly, glary, incontrovertible, manifest, naked, notorious, obvious, patent, patently, self-apparent, self-evident, tactile, tangible, visibly, well-marked). (various references) | |
Welsh | dybryd (arrant, dire, sore). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | manifesta, manifestae, manifestam, manifeste, manifesti, manifesto, manifestos, manifestum, manifestus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flagrant": flagrantly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "flagrant": conflagrant. (additional references) | |
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"Flagrant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fagrant, flagan, flagarant, flageant, flagerant, flagnant, flagrante, flagranti, flagrent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flagrant" (pronounced flā"grunt) |
| 6 | -ā" g r u n t | fragrant, vagrant. |
| 5 | -g r u n t | immigrant, emigrant, migrant. |
| 4 | -r u n t | apparent, arrant, aberrant, abhorrent, adherent, celebrant, coherent, Courant, declarant, deterrent, entrant, errant, grandparent, hydrant, incoherent, indifferent, inherent, parent, quadrant, recalcitrant, registrant, seafront, torrent, transparent, tyrant, vibrant, warrant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, 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, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, harassment, hesitant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, 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, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vigilant, violent, virulent, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-l-n-r-t" | |
-2 letters: antral, raglan, tarnal. | |
-3 letters: alang, alant, altar, antra, argal, artal, fanga, fatal, gnarl, graal, graft, grana, grant, lagan, natal, ratal, ratan, talar. | |
-4 letters: afar, agar, alan, alar, alfa, alga, anal, anga, anta, fang, farl, flag, flan, flat, frag, frat, gala, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, lang, raft, raga, rang, rant, tala, tang, tarn. | |
-5 letters: aal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-g-l-n-r-t" | |
+2 letters: flagrantly, fragmental, fragrantly. | |
+3 letters: conflagrant, farthingale. | |
+4 letters: allografting, deflagrating, deflagration, farthingales, fragmentally. | |
+5 letters: conflagration, deflagrations, fragmentarily, grandfatherly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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