egregious

  • 11egregious — adjective /ɪˈɡriː.dʒəs,əˈɡriː.dʒi.əs/ a) Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion. The student has made egregious errors on the examination. b) Outrageously bad. I cannot cross my arms, or sigh Ah me, / Ah me… …

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  • 12egregious — [[t]ɪgri͟ːʤəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Egregious means very bad indeed. [FORMAL] ...the most egregious abuses of human rights. Syn: grievous …

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  • 13egregious — adjective formal an egregious error, failure, problem etc is extremely bad and noticeable: a most egregious error of judgement egregiously adverb …

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  • 14egregious — e•gre•gious [[t]ɪˈgri dʒəs, dʒi əs[/t]] adj. extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar[/ex] • Etymology: 1525–35; < L ēgregius preeminent =ē e +gregius, adj. der. of grex, s. greg flock; see ous… …

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  • 15egregious — adj. 1 outstandingly bad; shocking (egregious folly; an egregious ass). 2 archaic or joc. remarkable. Derivatives: egregiously adv. egregiousness n. Etymology: L egregius illustrious, lit. standing out from the flock f. grex gregis flock …

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  • 16egregious — adj. Egregious is used with these nouns: ↑error, ↑example, ↑sin, ↑violation …

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  • 17egregious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. flagrant, gross. See badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. flagrant, glaring, extreme; see outrageous . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [i GREE jus] extremely bad or outrageous.… …

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  • 18egregious — e|gre|gious [ıˈgri:dʒəs] adj formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: egregius unusual , from grex group of animals ] an egregious mistake, failure, problem etc is extremely bad and noticeable >egregiously adv …

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  • 19egregious — adjective an egregious error of judgment Syn: shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous; monstrous, heinous, dire, unspeakable, shameful, unforgivable, intolerable, dreadful; f …

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  • 20egregious — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

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