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blatant Definition

bla·tant (blāt'nt)

adjective

  1. disagreeably loud or boisterous; clamorous
  2. glaringly conspicuous or obtrusive blatant ignorance

Etymology: coined by Edmund Spenser, prob. < L blaterare, to babble, or E dial. blate, to bellow

blatant Related Forms
bla·tantly adverb
blatant Synonyms

blatant

modif.

  1. Obvious

    obtrusive, glaring, plain, clear; see obvious 1, 2.

  2. Loud

    noisy, clamorous, vociferous, boisterous; see loud 2, vociferous. See syn. study at vociferous.

blatant Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • disregard: CMP of the match: Dan Lee for a blatant disregard for his health in scoring a brace.
  • rip-off: In perhaps the most blatant rip-off, we have a techno-geek agent who supplies our main hero with the gadgets to complete the mission.
  • handball: Nor will it from the blatant handball from Drogba prior to putting the ball into the net in the second half.
  • hypocrisy: Right at the start, I have to ' fess up to some blatant hypocrisy.
  • untruth: The attempt by Mrs Cave to suggest that it must be a mistake was in our view a blatant untruth.
  • violation: Wasn't this a blatant violation of the right to freedom of religion?

Modifying Another Word

  • fairly: Such trolls are relatively easy to spot because their attack or provocation is fairly blatant, and the persona is fairly two-dimensional.
  • pretty: Despite a pretty blatant title the film isn't constituted entirely by large amounts of violence.
  • rather: It seems to be a rather blatant reason to show a little skin amidst the sci-fi action.
  • too: The spiders and I have a truce, but if their webs become too blatant I start wielding my feather duster with a vengeance!
  • so: I don't think I was ever so blatant.
  • quite: I saw Uncle Charlie at his worst because he was quite blatant in his refusal to have anything to do with Company affairs.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The spiders and I have a truce, but if their webs become too blatant I start wielding my feather duster with a vengeance!
blatant Quotes

Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratöone Who can rule and dare not lie.

—Tennyson