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BLATANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blatant mean?
• BLATANT (adjective)
The adjective BLATANT has 2 senses:
1. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
2. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
Familiarity information: BLATANT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
Synonyms:
blatant; blazing; conspicuous
Context example:
a blazing indiscretion
Similar:
unconcealed (not concealed or hidden)
Derivation:
blatancy (the property of being both obvious and offensive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
Synonyms:
blatant; clamant; clamorous; strident; vociferous
Context example:
a vociferous mob
Similar:
noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)
Derivation:
blatancy (the property of being both obvious and offensive)
Context examples
It was different from the dance-hall piano-banging and blatant brass bands he had heard.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
O, I know he’s a good fellow—you needn’t frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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