flagrant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
    gross; egregious; rank; crying; glaring.
    • a crying shame
    • an egregious lie
    • flagrant violation of human rights
    • a glaring error
    • gross ineptitude
    • gross injustice
    • rank treachery

WordNet

Fla"grant adjective
Etymology
L. flagrans, -antis, p.pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. : cf. F. flagrant. Cf. Flame, Phlox.
Definitions
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
    The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior.
    A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey.
    Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.
  2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
    A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey.
  3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked. Syn. -- Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.

Webster 1913