Synonyms for egregious
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Flagrant — conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense
flagrant, gross, outrageous, glaring, grievous, awful, conspicuous, extraordinary, monstrous, enormous, great, gurt UK, crying, rank, consummate, heinous, atrocious, prodigious, arrant dated
2. Remarkable
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.
The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- adj. 2
Outrageously bad; shocking.
Related words
- Word family
- egregiosity egregiousness
Example sentences
- awful I think it's awful, that they're spreading rumors.
- conspicuous Marcus was once again conspicuous by his absence.
- glaring Igor was glaring at Anna and muttering to himself.
- flagrant This is yet another example of flagrant abuse of power.
- unconscionable Your views aren't unfashionable so much as unconscionable.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| egregious | rising | |
| awful | rising | |
| conspicuous | falling | |
| glaring | rising | |
| flagrant | falling | |
| unconscionable | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- rank1, gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, gross1, awful2
- 6 letters
- crying2, arrant2
- 7 letters
- glaring2, heinous2
- 8 letters
- enormous3, peculiar3, grievous2, flagrant2
- 9 letters
- monstrous2, atrocious3
- 10 letters
- remarkable4, outrageous3, surpassing3, consummate3, prodigious3
- 11 letters
- exceptional4, conspicuous4
- 13 letters
- extraordinary6
- 14 letters
- unconscionable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (awful2 = 2 syllables).