blatant
blatant
Definition
bla·tant (blāt′'nt)
adjective
- disagreeably loud or boisterous; clamorous
- glaringly conspicuous or obtrusive blatant ignorance
Etymology: coined by Edmund Spenser, prob. < L blaterare, to babble, or E dial. blate, to bellow
bla′·tantly adverb
blatant
Synonyms
blatant
modif.
Obvious
obtrusive, glaring, plain, clear; see obvious 1, 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.
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