flagrant
flagrant Lexical Profile
flagrant Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Conspicuously or obviously offensive, brazen, or morally reprehensible, especially in open defiance of laws, rules, or standards.
"The referee ejected the player from the game after a flagrant foul near the basket."
Word Nuance & Usage
Often compared with 'blatant'; while 'blatant' describes something noisy, brazen, or impossible to ignore, 'flagrant' specifically emphasizes deliberate, shocking, or outrageous defiance of rules, laws, or moral standards.
• Rhymes for flagrant
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 15th century from Middle French or directly from Latin flagrantem, the present participle of flagrare ('to blaze, burn, or glow with heat'). Its modern sense of 'glaringly offensive' evolved from the metaphor of a crime or fault burning brightly in full view.
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