eclatant

See also: éclatant

English[edit]

From French éclatant (“bright, brilliant, dazzling”), present participle of éclater (“to burst; to shine”).

eclatant (comparative more eclatant, superlative most eclatant)

(rare) Impressive, brilliant, striking, convincing.
- 1895 May, “Missouri Institute of Homœopathy, Bureau of Gynecology: Address by Dr. T. Griswold Comstock, Chairman”, in St. Louis Journal of Homœopathy and Clinical Reporter, volume 1, number 6, St. Louis, MO, page 178:
  Some operators differ with Dr. Pratt as to the technique of the operation, but this is a minor matter, so long as their operations are successful, but one fact is patent, the operation when made from proper indications is followed by the most eclatant results.
- 2014, Marina Gržinić, Šefik Tatlić, “The Unending Transition”, in Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 254:
  It is clear that what was once seen as an inconsistency, is actually an eclatant example of one of the most systemic characteristics of the system.

impressive, brilliant, striking, convincing

eclatant m or n (feminine singular eclatantă, masculine plural eclatanți, feminine and neuter plural eclatante)

Declension of eclatant