Adjective: flagrant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more flagrant |
| Superlative | most flagrant |
Sample Sentences
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a flagrant, unforgivably outrageous disregard for human life
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'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. [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:]
Adjectives inflected like flagrant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.
Verbs referencing "flagrant"
Finnish Adjectives
flagrantti.