Blatant

Pronunciation

• enPR: blā'tÉ™nt, IPA: /ˈbleɪtÉ™nt/

Origin

(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.

Full definition of blatant

Adjective

1. Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
2. Obvious, on show.
• Richard Henry DanaHarsh and blatant tone.
• Edmund SpenserA monster, which the blatant beast men call.
• Washington IrvingGlory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
• 2013-06-07, Gary Younge, Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, 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.

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Antonyms

• (obvious) furtive