blatant

English

Etymology

(1596) coined by Edmund Spenser ("blatant beast"). Probably a variation of *blatand (Scots blaitand), present participle of blate, a variation of bleat, equivalent to blate +‎ -and. See bleat.

Pronunciation

• enPR: blā'tənt, IPA: /ˈbleɪtənt/, X-SAMPA: /"bleIt@nt/

Adjective

blatant (comparative more blatant, superlative most blatant)

1. Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
2. Obvious, on show.
   • Richard Henry Dana

     Harsh and blatant tone.

   • Edmund Spenser

     A monster, which the blatant beast men call.

   • Washington Irving

     Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18: 

     WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:obvious
• See also Wikisaurus:gaudy

Antonyms

• (obvious): furtive

Translations

bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous

• Bulgarian: шумен (bg) (šumen), креслив (bg) (kresliv)
• Dutch: schaamteloos (nl), openlijk (nl), klinkklaar (nl)
• Finnish: häpeämätön (fi), räikeä (fi), julkea (fi)
• Hungarian: zajos (hu)

• Italian: assordante (it) m, fragoroso (it) m, chiassoso (it) m, gigantesco (it), macroscopico (it)
• Russian: крикливый (ru) (kriklĺvyj), вульгарный (ru) (vul'gárnyj)

obvious, on show

• Bulgarian: явен (bg) (javen), очевиден (bg) (očeviden), вопиющ (bg) (vopijušt)
• French: flagrant (fr), clair (fr)
• German: offensichtlich (de), himmelschreiend (de), eklatant (de), krass (de)
• Italian: appariscente (it) c, vistoso (it) m
• Russian: вопиющий (ru) (vopijúš'ij), явный (ru) (jávnyj), очевидный (ru) (očevídnyj)

• Serbo-Croatian: napadan (sh), upadljiv (sh), flagrantan (sh)
• Spanish: obvio (es), evidente (es), ostensible (es), descarado (es), flagrante (es)
• Swedish: uppenbar (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: בוטה (bot'e) m, בוטה (bot'a) f (1)
• Italian: ovvio
• Slovak: očividný, zrejmý

See also

• ostentatious