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Synonyms for flagrant

26 synonyms
2 meanings

adjective

Most common

blatant glaring heinous egregious

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Egregious — obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous

egregious, glaring, gross, blatant, outrageous, heinous, grievous, notorious, atrocious, conspicuous, bad, awful, enormous, great, gurt UK, crying, wicked, rank, flagitious formal, shameful, vile, infamous, monstrous

2. Flaming — on fire; flaming

flaming, burning, ardent, glowing

Definitions

adj. 1
Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
a flagrant, unforgivably outrageous disregard for human life
adj. 2
On fire; flaming.

Related words

Word family: flagrantly

Example sentences

blatant Daniel will finally punish Amanda for her blatant lies.
glaring Igor was glaring at Anna and muttering to himself.
heinous Fadil committed a heinous crime in the name of love.
egregious This is an egregious example of tax avoidance.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
flagrant		falling
blatant		rising
glaring		rising
heinous		rising
egregious		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: bad¹
4 letters: rank¹, vile¹, gurt
5 letters: great¹, gross¹, awful²
6 letters: crying², wicked², ardent²
7 letters: burning², glowing², blatant², flaming², glaring², heinous²
8 letters: enormous³, infamous³, shameful², grievous²
9 letters: notorious⁴, monstrous², egregious³, atrocious³
10 letters: outrageous³, flagitious
11 letters: conspicuous⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (awful² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: flagrant
Italiano: flagrante
Deutsch: offenkundig