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.
   • 1740, [David Hume], “Of the Measures of Allegiance”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book III (Of Morals), London: […] Thomas Longman, […], →OCLC, part II (Of Justice and Injustice), pages 163–164:

     'Tis certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals vve never entertain ſuch an abſurdity as that of paſſive obedience, but make allovvances 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): (Valencia) [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)

Declension of flagrant
uninflected	flagrant
inflected	flagrante
comparative	flagranter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		flagrant	flagranter	het flagrantst het flagrantste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	flagrante	flagrantere	flagrantste
	n. sing.	flagrant	flagranter	flagrantste
	plural	flagrante	flagrantere	flagrantste
definite		flagrante	flagrantere	flagrantste
partitive		flagrants	flagranters	—

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