blatant
/ˈbleɪtənt/
blatant adjective: obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.
Adjective
blatant (comparative more blatant, superlative most blatant)
- Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.
- a blatant breach of good faith in the negotiation
- So bare-faced that no one can miss such a blatant lie.
- Bellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
- A monster, which the Blatant beast men call.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37
- harsh and blatant tones1859, Richard Henry Dana Jr., To Cuba and Back
blatant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
blatant in Tamil
- அப்பட்டமான
blatant in Urdu
- بےہودہ, منہ پھٹ, پرشور, واضح
blatant in Bengali
- প্রকাশ্য, নির্লজ্জ
blatant in Malayalam
- ലജ്ജാരഹിതമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- blatant in Kannada
- ಕೂಗಾಟದ, ಅರಚಾಟದ, ಒದರಾಟದ, ಬೊಬ್ಬೆಯ
- blatant in Arabic
- مُبِين mubīn
- blatant in Thai
- โจ่งแจ้ง jòong-jɛ̂ɛng
Examples of blatant in a sentence
- Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:
- London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels.1910 July 23, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and...
- They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from...
- A blatant bugle tears my afternoons. / Out clump the clumsy Tommies by platoons, / Trying to keep in step with rag-time tunes, / But I sit still; I've done my drill.1918, Wilfred Owen, The Calls:
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Forms of blatant
| comparative | more blatant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most blatant |
Origin of blatant
Coined by Edmund Spenser in 1596 in "blatant beast". Probably a variation of *blatand (Scots blaitand (“bleating”)), present participle of blate, a variation of bleat, equivalent to blate + -ant. See bleat. In addition, it is suggested by Latin blatiō (“speak like a fool, prate”), which is rare, and so the similitude may be just coincidental. Compare typologically Bulgarian вопиющ (vopijušt), Russian вопию́щий (vopijúščij) (akin to вопи́ть (vopítʹ)).
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Questions about blatant
- What does blatant mean?
- Blatant means obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.
- What is blatant in Tamil?
- Blatant in Tamil is அப்பட்டமான. See Blatant meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use blatant in a sentence?
- Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
- What part of speech is blatant?
- Blatant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce blatant?
- Blatant is pronounced /ˈbleɪtənt/.
Words near blatant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: blatant (page history and authors); blatant (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blatant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blatant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blatant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blatant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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