flagrant

  • 21FLAGRANT — ANTE. adj. Qui a lieu, qui se fait, qui se commet actuellement. Il est principalement usité dans cette locution, Flagrant délit, Délit où l on est pris sur le fait. Le voleur fut pris en flagrant délit. En cas de flagrant délit …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 22flagrant — [[t]fle͟ɪgrənt[/t]] ADJ GRADED: ADJ n (disapproval) You can use flagrant to describe an action, situation, or someone s behaviour that you find extremely bad or shocking in a very obvious way. The judge called the decision a flagrant violation of …

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  • 23flagrant — adjective flagrant abuse/violation etc a flagrant action is shocking because it is done in a way that is easily noticed and shows no respect for laws, truth etc: flagrant disregard for human rights flagrantly adverb …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 24flagrant — a, flagrant, o adj. flagrante. Es estat pres en delit flagrant : on l a pris en flagrant délit. voir caud …

    Diccionari Personau e Evolutiu

  • 25flagrant — augenfällig; offensichtlich; eklatant; offenkundig * * * fla|grant [fla grant] <Adj.> (bildungsspr.): offenkundig, ins Auge fallend: ein besonders flagranter Verstoß gegen das internationale Abkommen. Syn.: ↑ augenscheinlich, ↑ deutlich …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 26flagrant — augenfällig, deutlich, eklatant, ins Auge fallend/springend, klar [erkennbar], nicht zu übersehen, offenbar, offenkundig; (geh.): augenscheinlich; (bildungsspr.): evident, manifest. * * * flagrant:⇨offenkundig(1) flagrant→offenbar …

    Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • 27flagrant — [15] Etymologically, flagrant means ‘burning, blazing’. It comes, via French, from the present participle of Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (source of English conflagration [16]). This in turn went back to Indo European *bhleg , which also produced… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 28flagrant — /ˈfleɪgrənt / (say flaygruhnt) adjective glaring; notorious; scandalous: a flagrant crime; a flagrant offender. {Latin flagrans, present participle, blazing, burning} –flagrance, flagrancy, noun –flagrantly, adverb …

  • 29flagrant — [15] Etymologically, flagrant means ‘burning, blazing’. It comes, via French, from the present participle of Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (source of English conflagration [16]). This in turn went back to Indo European *bhleg , which also produced… …

    Word origins

  • 30flagrant — adj. (of an offence or an offender) glaring; notorious; scandalous. Derivatives: flagrancy n. flagrantly adv. Etymology: F flagrant or L flagrant part. stem of flagrare blaze …

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