flagrant
pronunciation
How to pronounce flagrant in British English:
UK [ˈfleɪɡrənt]
How to pronounce flagrant in American English:
US [ˈfleɪɡrənt]
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- Adjective:
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Word Origin
- flagrant
- flagrant: [15] Etymologically, flagrant means ‘burning, blazing’. It comes, via French, from the present participle of Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (source of English conflagration [16]). This in turn went back to Indo-European *bhleg-, which also produced English flame. The use of flagrant for ‘shameless, shocking’, an 18th-century development, comes from the Latin phrase in flagrante delicto ‘red-handed’, literally ‘with the crime still blazing’.=> conflagration, flame
- flagrant (adj.)
- c. 1500, "resplendent" (obsolete), from Latin flagrantem (nominative flagrans) "burning, blazing, glowing," figuratively "glowing with passion, eager, vehement," present participle of flagrare "to burn, blaze, glow" from Proto-Italic *flagro- "burning" (cognates: Oscan flagio-, an epithet of Iuppiter), corresponding to PIE *bhleg-ro-, from *bhleg- "to shine, flash, burn" (cognates: Greek phlegein "to burn, scorch," Latin fulgere "to shine"), from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Sense of "glaringly offensive, scandalous" (rarely used of persons) first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase flagrante delicto "while the crime is being committed, red-handed," literally "with the crime still blazing." Related: Flagrantly.
Example
- 1. Once having caught her in a flagrant act .
- 2. In flagrant disregard of the law .
- 3. Quote clippers fyi craig smith is ejected for flagrant foul .
- 4. Beauty parlors are flagrant violators , illegally administering botox injections and performing eyelid surgery .
- 5. The film is the most flagrant example of american anti-catholicism , some say , since the know nothings of the 19th century .