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1. Blatant was, invented late in the 16th century by the poet Spenser as an epithet of a thousand-tongued monster in The Faerie Queene. It now means 'glaringly conspicuous', and overlaps in meaning with flagrant but has rather less of flagrant's implications of offensiveness: It was a blatant lie means that the lie was obvious; It was a flagrant lie means that (when discovered) it was outrageous. Blatant typically modifies words such as attempt, discrimination, disregard, disrespect, hypocrisy, intrigue, lie, mischief, racism, rip-off, and violation; flagrant also modifies disregard and violation, as well as abuse, breach, denial, dishonesty, example, foul, impropriety, incompetence, and violator.

2. The adverbial form blatantly (unlike flagrantly) has developed a weakened meaning, especially in youth slang, as a stock form of intensifier like absolutely and extremely.

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adjective

1. Offensively loud and insistent: boisterous, clamorous, obstreperous, strident, vociferous. Informal loudmouthed. See sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.
2. Characterized by or done without shame: bald-faced, barefaced, brazen, brazenfaced, shameless, unabashed, unblushing. Informal brassy. See courtesy/discourtesy, respect/contempt/standing, right/wrong.

adj

Definition: deafening
Antonyms: quiet, silent

adj

Definition: obvious; brazen
Antonyms: inconspicuous, quiet, subtle, unpronounced

IN BRIEF: Noisy and obvious. In a rude manner.

It was definitely a blatant lie.

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• Extroverted, Outgoing, Outspoken, or Dramatic

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skamløs, vulgær

Nederlands (Dutch)
luidruchtig, flagrant, schreeuwend, overduidelijk

Français (French)
adj. - criant, flagrant, éhonté, fieffé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - lärmend, unübersehbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - οφθαλμοφανής, κατάφωρος, σκανδαλώδης, προκλητικός

Italiano (Italian)
assordante, strepitoso, evidente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - espalhafatoso, óbvio

Русский (Russian)
крикливый, вопиющий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - estridente, evidente, patente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - skränig, skrikig, bullersam

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
喧嚣的, 俗丽的, 吵闹的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 喧囂的, 俗麗的, 吵鬧的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 뻔뻔스러운, 시끄러운, 야한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 騒々しい, あくどい, けばけばしい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مفضوح, واضح, صريح‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮בוטה, קולני, גס, חסר-בושה‬

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