Blatant \Bla"tant\, a. [Cf. Bleat.]
Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring;
disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh
and blatant tone." --R. H. Dana.
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A monster, which the blatant beast men call. --Spenser.
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Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military
minds like the bray of the trumpet. --W. Irving.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blatant
adj 1: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
"open disregard of the law"; "open family strife";
"open hostility"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a
blazing indiscretion" [syn: blazing, conspicuous,
open]
2: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement
outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident
demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: clamant, clamorous,
strident, vociferous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "blatant":
arrant, barefaced, bawling, bellowing, blaring, blatting,
blustering, boanergean, boisterous, bold, brassy, brawling, brazen,
brazenfaced, chintzy, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging,
clangorous, clattery, colorful, conspicuous, crude, crying,
extravagant, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy,
glaring, gorgeous, hanging out, howling, impudent, in relief,
in the foreground, loud, loudmouthed, lowing, lurid, mafficking,
meretricious, mugient, multivocal, noiseful, noisy, notable,
noticeable, notorious, obstreperous, obtrusive, obvious,
openmouthed, ostensible, outstanding, overbold, overt, palpable,
prominent, pronounced, puling, rackety, rip-roaring, rowdy,
salient, screaming, sensational, shameless, shouting, spectacular,
staring, stark-staring, sticking out, strepitant, strepitous,
strident, striking, tawdry, tinsel, tumultuous, turbulent, ululant,
unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, uproarious, vociferant,
vociferating, vociferous, vulgar, wailing, whining, yammering,
yapping, yelling, yelping
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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