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单词 flagrant
释义

flagrant

English

WOTD – 8 March 2008

Alternative forms

  • flagraunt (obsolete, rare)

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈfleɪ.ɡɹənt/
  • (file)
  • (file)

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.
    • 1739–1740, [David Hume], A Treatise of Human Nature: [], London: [] John Noon, [], OCLC 1029651633; republished as L[ewis] A[mherst] Selby-Bigge, editor, A Treatise of Human Nature [], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, 1896, OCLC 890504680, (please specify |book=I to III):
      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
  • in flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin frāgrans, participle of frāgrō (smell, reek).

Adjective

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

  1. (obsolete) Misspelling of fragrant.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin flagrāns.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /fləˈɡɾant/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /fləˈɡɾan/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /flaˈɡɾant/

Adjective

flagrant (masculine and feminine plural flagrants)

  1. flaming, burning
  2. flagrant, blatant

Further reading

  • “flagrant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • flagrant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
  • “flagrant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “flagrant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French flagrant, from Latin flagrāns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flaːˈɣrɑnt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: fla‧grant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Adjective

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative flagrantst)

  1. flagrant, blatant (obvious and offensive)

Inflection

Inflection of flagrant
uninflectedflagrant
inflectedflagrante
comparativeflagranter
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialflagrantflagranterhet flagrantst
het flagrantste
indefinitem./f. sing.flagranteflagrantereflagrantste
n. sing.flagrantflagranterflagrantste
pluralflagranteflagrantereflagrantste
definiteflagranteflagrantereflagrantste
partitiveflagrantsflagranters

French

Etymology

From Latin flagrāns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fla.ɡʁɑ̃/
  • (file)
  • (file)

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
  • flagrance

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flagrant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [flaˈɡʁant]
  • (file)

Adjective

flagrant (strong nominative masculine singular flagranter, comparative flagranter, superlative am flagrantesten)

  1. flagrant

Declension

Further reading

  • flagrant” in Duden online
  • flagrant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Verb

flāgrant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of flāgrō

Romanian

Etymology

From French flagrant.

Adjective

flagrant m or n (feminine singular flagrantă, masculine plural flagranți, feminine and neuter plural flagrante)

  1. flagrant

Declension

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