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单词 flagrant
释义 fla·grant
I. \ˈflāgrənt also -la(i)g-\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin flagrant-, flagrans, alteration of Latin fragrant-, fragrans — more at fragrant
dialect : fragrant
II. adjective
Etymology: Latin flagrant-, flagrans, present participle of flagrare to flame, burn — more at black
1. archaic : flaming, glowing, burning
2. archaic, of a war or other contest : carried on hotly : raging
3. : extremely, flauntingly, or purposefully conspicuous usually because of uncommon evil, unworthiness, unpleasantness, or truculence : glaringly evident : notorious
 < flagrant neglect of duty >
 < even in the most flagrant crimes had denied the justice and righteousness of capital punishment — Jack London >
Synonyms:
 glaring, gross, rank: flagrant may describe offenses or errors so conspicuously or outstandingly bad that it is impossible not to notice them
  < ended their sinful career by open and flagrant mutiny and were shot for it — Rudyard Kipling >
  < the extremes of wealth and poverty were most flagrant, slums crowding the marble palaces of the rich — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager >
  glaring applies to the obtrusively conspicuous; it may suggest the painfully and harshly vivid
  < this evil is so glaring, so inexcusable by any sophistry that the cleverest landlord can devise — G.B.Shaw >
  < glaring imperfections which go far beyond a mere lack of verbal felicity — J.W.Krutch >
  gross may refer to inexcusable faults or offenses displayed blatantly, callously, coarsely, and without mitigation or palliation
  < my anger and disgust at his gross earthy egoism had vanished — W.H.Hudson †1922 >
  < an ordinary Fascist type of state, gross, brutal, and violent — William Empson >
  rank may apply to what is openly objectionable in the extreme and utterly stigmatized
  < rank heresy >
  < it was hatred, simple hatred, that rank poison fatal to Mr. Hazard's health, which now plagued his veins — Elinor Wylie >
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