Flagrant Definition

flāgrənt
adjective
Glaringly bad; notorious; outrageous.
Webster's New World
Flaming; blazing.
Webster's New World
The definition of flagrant is something that is obviously wrong or offensive in some way.
An example of flagrant defiance is when you are told you cannot have one cookie and you immediately and defiantly go and take three right in front of the person who said no.
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(obsolete) Common misspelling of fragrant.

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Origin of Flagrant

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin flagrāns flagrant- present participle of flagrāre to burn bhel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin frāgrans, participle of frāgrō

    From Wiktionary

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