flagrant

English

WOTD – 8 March 2008

Alternative forms

• flagraunt (obsolete, rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪ.ɡɹənt/

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Etymology 1

From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.

Adjective

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

1. Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
   • 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

     It is certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals we never entertain such an absurdity as that of passive obedience, but make allowances for resistance in the more flagrant instances of tyranny and oppression.

2. (archaic) On fire; flaming.

Synonyms

• (obvious and offensive): blatant, glaring
• (on fire): burning, flaming

Related terms

• in flagrante delicto

Translations

obvious and offensive

• Bulgarian: явен (bg) (javen), очебиен (bg) (očebien), скандален (bg) (skandalen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公然的

• Finnish: räikeä (fi), huutava (fi), ilmiselvä (fi)
• French: flagrant (fr)
• German: offenkundig (de), krass (de), eklatant (de), unverhohlen
• Hungarian: kirívó, botrányos (hu), felháborító (hu)
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• Irish: neamhnáireach
• Polish: rażący m
• Russian: вопию́щий (ru) (vopijúščij), чудо́вищный (ru) (čudóviščnyj)
• Spanish: flagrante (es), sangrante (es)
• Swedish: flagrant (sv)
• Turkish: meşhut

Etymology 2

From Latin frāgrans, participle of frāgrō (“smell, reek”)

Adjective

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

1. (obsolete) Misspelling of fragrant.

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Dutch

Etymology

From French flagrant.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative flagrantst)

1. flagrant

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French

Etymology

From Latin flagrantem (present participle of flagrare.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.ɡʁɑ̃/

Adjective

flagrant (feminine flagrante, masculine plural flagrants, feminine plural flagrantes)

1. flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident

   C’est flagrant. ― It stares you in the face.

Derived terms

• flagramment
• prendre en flagrant délit

Further reading

• “flagrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Etymology

From Latin flagrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [flaˈɡʀant]

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Adjective

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative am flagrantesten)

1. flagrant

Further reading

• “flagrant” in Duden online

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) flāgrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of flāgrō