flagrant

Speech parts

1. flagrant - Adjective

2. flagrant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.

Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.

Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

glaring rank gross crying blatant atrocious egregious flagitious open clear flaming arrant ranker apparent patent
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Antonyms

minor secret moral hidden mild modest
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Phrases with the word

flagrant state flagrant punishment flagrant busybody flagrant foul flagrant violation

Examples

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. Tacitus

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. John Henry Newman

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? G. K. Chesterton

Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins! Fred Phelps

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. José María Aznar

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated. We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case. Hugo Black

Close letter words and terms

flagpost flagrance flagrancy flagrant busybody flagrant foul flagrant punishment