blatant
/ˈbleɪtənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a blatant breach of good faith in the negotiation"
- "So bare-faced that no one can miss such a blatant lie."
- "Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet."
- "London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels."
- "He tried to think out what those two men had which so strangely attracted her. They both had a vulgar facetiousness which tickled her simple sense of humour, and a certain coarseness of nature; but what took her perhaps was the blatant sexuality which was their most marked characteristic."
- "WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies."
Etymology
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)).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more blatant (comparative)
most blatant (superlative)