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flagrant
CIDE DICTIONARY
flagrant, a. [L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. : cf. F. flagrant. Cf. Flame, Phlox.].
- Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. [1913 Webster]"The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back." [1913 Webster]"A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle." [1913 Webster]"Flagrant desires and affections." [1913 Webster]
- Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. [1913 Webster]"A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant." [1913 Webster]
- Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Syn. -- Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flagrant, adj. (of an offence or an offender) glaring; notorious; scandalous.
Derivative
flagrancy n. flagrantly adv.
Etymology
F flagrant or L flagrant- part. stem of flagrare blaze
THESAURUS
flagrant
abject, ablaze, abominable, absolute, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, arrant, atrocious, audacious, awful, bad, barefaced, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, blatant, blazing, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, brutal, burning, candent, candescent, capital, cheesy, classical, colorful, comburent, complete, conflagrant, conspicuous, consummate, contemptible, contemptuous, crass, criminal, crude, cruel, crummy, damnable, dark, debased, decided, defiant, definitive, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, downright, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, exhibitionistic, extravagant, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flaming, flaring, flaunting, flickering, forward, foul, fulsome, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, grave, grievous, gross, guttering, hanging out, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignescent, ignited, immodest, improper, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, in relief, in the foreground, incandescent, inconsiderate, infamous, inflamed, iniquitous, intolerable, kindled, knavish, lamentable, little, live, living, loathsome, loud, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, lurid, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notable, noticeable, notorious, obnoxious, obtrusive, obvious, odious, offensive, on fire, open, ostensible, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, outstanding, paltry, peccant, perfect, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, positive, precious, profound, prominent, pronounced, proper, rank, reeking, regrettable, regular, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, sad, salient, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scintillant, scintillating, scornful, screaming, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, sensational, shabby, shameful, shameless, shattering, shocking, shoddy, sinful, small, smoking, smoldering, sordid, sparking, spectacular, squalid, staring, stark, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, superlative, surpassing, tawdry, terrible, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, too bad, total, treacherous, unabashed, unashamed, unbearable, unblushing, unclean, unconscionable, undeniable, unembarrassed, unequivocal, unextinguished, unforgivable, unmentionable, unmitigated, unmodest, unpardonable, unqualified, unquenched, unrelieved, unspeakable, unspoiled, unworthy, utter, vicious, vile, villainous, vulgar, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrongROGET THESAURUS
flagrant
Greatness
N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, 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, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.Vice
N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, 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, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.Manifestation
N manifestation, plainness, plain speaking, expression, showing, exposition, demonstration, exhibition, production, display, show, showing off, premonstration, exhibit, indication, publicity, disclosure, openness panchement, evidence, manifest, apparent, salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced, flagrant, notorious, arrant, stark staring, unshaded, glaring, defined, definite, distinct, conspicuous, obvious, evident, unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident, autoptical, intelligible, plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday, plain as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's face, plain as the way to parish church, explicit, overt, patent, express, ostensible, open, open as day, naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric, unreserved, frank, plain-spoken, candid (veracious), barefaced, manifested, disclosed, capable of being shown, producible, inconcealable, unconcealable, no secret, manifestly, openly, before one's eyes, under one's nose, to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage, in open court, in the open streets, in market overt, in the face of day, face of heaven, in broad daylight, in open daylight, without reserve, at first blush, prima facie, on the face of, in set terms, cela saute aux yeux, he that runs may read, you can see it with half an eye, it needs no ghost to tell us, the meaning lies on the surface, cela va sans dire, res ipsa loquitur, clothing the palpable and familiar, fari quae sentiat, volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the.Publication
N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.For further exploring for "flagrant" in Webster Dictionary Online