Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Unpleasantly loud and noisy: "There are those who find the trombones blatant and the triangle silly, but both add effective color” ( Musical Heritage Review). See Synonyms at vociferous.
- adj. Usage Problem Totally or offensively conspicuous or obtrusive: a blatant lie.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bellowing; bawling; noisy; loud-talking or loud-sounding.
Wiktionary
- adj. Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
- adj. Obvious, on show
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
- adj. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
Etymologies
- (1596) coined by Edmund Spenser ("blatant beast"). Probably a variation of *blatand (Scots blaitand), present participle of blate, a variation of bleat, equivalent to blate + -and. See bleat. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin blatīre, to blab (on the model of words such as rampant). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“While Senate Republicans joined Democrats in pounding on the Goldman executives at the hearing and expressed comparable outrage over what they described as blatant conflicts of interest in the structuring of Goldman deals, they confidently trooped over to the Senate floor to vote again to block the bill.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Greenwald: Sanders: Scream and Shout for Wall Street Reform
“On recovering Bureche farm, National lands Institute (INTI) officials faced an angry oligarch opposing what he calls the blatant invasion of private property.”
Venezuela's Agrarian Reform in Action - INTI vs. Sigala in Barquisimeto
“It also criticised what it called the blatant disregard of the principals of consultation embodied in the African National”
“Commission to prevent what it termed blatant racism by a rightwing cultural organisation which was allowing only whites to enter a writing competition.”
“Nigerian government of what it called blatant contempt for the rule of law.”
“Mr Buthelezi on Wednesday criticised the media in general for what he termed their blatant misrepresentation of the IFP position at multiparty talks.”
“In his new message, titled "The Dawn of Imminent Victory," al-Zawahri also lashed out at the United States for what he called "blatant deception" in showing support for the Arab uprisings while keeping strong ties with leaders in the absolute monarchies of the Gulf, like Saudi Arabia.”
“Freedom From Religion Foundation say that in the last few years, they have learned more often about what they call blatant violations like the South Carolina rally.”
“Polly Curtis, Whitehall correspondent Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, hit at "the attack on our pensions" which he called "blatant robbery".”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘blatant’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
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throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Verbal_Advantage
paraphrase, ostensible, digress, uncanny, candor, morose, adept, saturated, pragmatic, congenial, capricious, blatant and 38 more...
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
vanish, number one, archangel, commodious, dominie, rubble, glisten, morose, spindle, ventilation, Blessed, christian and 503 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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501
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irk, teem, blight, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado and 401 more...
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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English words of Scots origin
If it's not ...
blackmail, blatant, caddie, caddy, clan, convene, cosy, firth, glamour, gloaming, golf, glengarry and 15 more...
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Overwhelming
Descriptive, emotional, powerful words.
delightful, wonderful, spectacular, great, fantastic, amazing, magnificent, inspiring, intense, brilliant, blatant, hilarious and 2 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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Lesson 6
addict, aspire, bias, blatant, candid, confront, debut, enroll, fluster, impunity, intensify, intimidate and 3 more...
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homeward "Better blatant than latent" has always been my motto. (I don't know if that says more about me or the word... :-) Jul 20, 2009