flagrant

• flagraunt (obsolete, rare)

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪ.ɡɹənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪɡɹənt

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

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; republished as L[ewis] A[mherst] Selby-Bigge, editor, A Treatise of Human Nature […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, 1896, →OCLC, (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.

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

• in flagrante delicto, in flagrant delict

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

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

1. (obsolete) Misspelling of fragrant.

Borrowed from Latin flagrantem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fləˈɣɾan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [fləˈɣɾant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [flaˈɣɾant]

flagrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural flagrants)

1. flaming, burning
2. flagrant, blatant

• “flagrant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flagrant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

Borrowed from French flagrant, from Latin flagrāns.

• IPA^(key): /flaːˈɣrɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: fla‧grant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative flagrantst)

1. flagrant, blatant (obvious and offensive)

From Latin flagrantem.

• IPA^(key): /fla.ɡʁɑ̃/

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

1. flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident

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

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

Borrowed from Latin flagrant.

• IPA^(key): [flaˈɡʁant]

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

1. flagrant

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

flāgrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of flāgrō

Borrowed from French flagrant.

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

1. flagrant