blatant
pronunciation
How to pronounce blatant in British English:
UK [ˈbleɪtnt]
How to pronounce blatant in American English:
US [ˈbleɪtnt]
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- Adjective:
- without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
Word Origin
- blatant
- blatant: [16] Blatant appears to have been coined, or at least introduced, by the poet Edmund Spenser. In the Faerie Queene 1596 he describes how ‘unto themselves they [Envy and Detraction] gotten had a monster which the blatant beast men call, a dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad [dreaded]’. This ‘blatant beast’ was an allegorical representation of calumny. In the 17th century the word came to be applied to offensively voluble people, but the main modern sense, ‘offensively conspicuous’, does not seem to have developed until the late 19th century.If the word was Spenser’s own introduction, it is not clear where he got it from. The likeliest candidate seems to be Latin blatīre ‘babble, gossip’, of imitative origin.
- blatant (adj.)
- 1596, in blatant beast, coined by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queen" to describe a thousand-tongued monster representing slander; probably suggested by Latin blatire "to babble." It entered general use 1650s, as "noisy in an offensive and vulgar way;" the sense of "obvious, glaringly conspicuous" is from 1889. Related: Blatantly.
Example
- 1. Call it what you like , but it was blatant idolatry .
- 2. Upper-class volunteers were more likely than others to report higher rolls than were actually possible -- blatant cheating .
- 3. The anti-china hysteria in washington , dc , the cowardly silence of the pro-china business lobby and the blatant disregard for fair play and open markets is deeply disturbing .
- 4. " That disparity in power " made these killings even more horrific , she said . " It is just a blatant and disgusting display of inequity , and it is so inhumane on so many levels . "
- 5. At the same time , they pressure governments -- either through direct meetings or public condemnation -- to update voter registers , support domestic observers , ensure that ballot materials are delivered throughout the country , and adopt technologies that make blatant election fraud harder .