blatant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: blā'tənt, IPA^(key): /ˈbleɪtənt/

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Adjective

blatant (comparative more blatant, superlative most blatant)

1. (archaic) Bellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
2. Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.
   • 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”, in 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 Thesaurus:obvious
• See also Thesaurus: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)
• Interlingue:
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• Italian: assordante (it) m, fragoroso (it) m, chiassoso (it) m, gigantesco (it), macroscopico (it)
• Romanian: zbierător
• Russian: крикли́вый (ru) (kriklívyj), вульга́рный (ru) (vulʹgárnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: drečeći (sh), blatantan

obvious, on show

• Bulgarian: явен (bg) (javen), очевиден (bg) (očeviden), вопиющ (vopijušt)
• Catalan: flagrant
• Czech: do očí bijící, do nebe volající, bezostyšný, flagrantní
• Finnish: räikeä (fi), selkeä (fi), selvä (fi)
• French: flagrant (fr), clair (fr)
• German: offensichtlich (de), himmelschreiend (de), eklatant (de), krass (de)
• Interlingue: , ,
• Italian: appariscente (it) c, vistoso (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: óbvio (pt) m, gritante, evidente (pt)
• Romanian: evident (ro), țipător (ro), ostentativ (ro)
• Russian: вопию́щий (ru) (vopijúščij) (crying, outrageous), я́вный (ru) (jávnyj), очеви́дный (ru) (očevídnyj), показно́й (ru) (pokaznój)
• Serbo-Croatian: napadan (sh), upadljiv (sh), flagrantan (sh), blatantan
• Spanish: obvio (es), evidente (es), ostensible (es), descarado (es), flagrante (es)
• Swedish: uppenbar (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} בוטה (he) m (bot'e), ^{(please verify)} בוטה (he) f (bot'a) (1)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} ovvio (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} očividný, ^{(please verify)} zrejmý

See also

• ostentatious