Egregious \E*gre"gious\ (?; 277), a. [L. egregius; lit.,
separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished,
excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd. See Gregarious.]
Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); --
formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now
joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious
rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake.
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The egregious impudence of this fellow. --Bp. Hall.
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His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be
neglected. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
egregious
adj : conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation
of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross
ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn:
crying(a), flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]
WordNet (r) 2.0
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "egregious":
a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absolute, all-embracing,
all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, appalling, arrant,
astonishing, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt,
blameworthy, born, boundless, broad-based, brutal, capital,
classical, clean, clear, complete, comprehensive, congenital,
conspicuous, consummate, contemptible, crass, decided, deep-dyed,
definitive, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting,
downright, dreadful, dyed-in-the-wool, enormous, exaggerated,
exceptional, excessive, exhaustive, exorbitant, extraordinary,
extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fantastic, fetid, filthy,
flagrant, formidable, foul, fulsome, gigantic, glaring, gluttonous,
grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid,
hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, incredible,
infamous, inordinate, intemperate, intensive, intolerable,
lamentable, loathsome, lousy, marked, marvelous, monstrous, nasty,
nefarious, noisome, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious,
obnoxious, odious, of mark, offensive, omnibus, omnipresent,
out of bounds, out of sight, out-and-out, outrageous, outright,
outstanding, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown,
overlarge, overmuch, overweening, perfect, pervasive, pitiable,
pitiful, plain, plumb, positive, precious, preposterous, profound,
pronounced, proper, pure, radical, rank, regrettable, regular,
remarkable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous,
schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattering, sheer, shocking,
shoddy, signal, sordid, squalid, stark, stark-staring, steep,
stiff, straight, striking, superior, superlative, surpassing,
sweeping, terrible, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
through-and-through, too bad, too much, total, ubiquitous,
unbearable, unbridled, unclean, uncommon, unconditional,
unconscionable, undeniable, undue, unequivocal, universal,
unmitigated, unqualified, unreasonable, unrelieved, unreserved,
unrestrained, unrestricted, unspoiled, utter, veritable, vile,
villainous, wholesale, woeful, wonderful, worst, worthless,
wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
crying(a), flagrant, glaring, gross, rank
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