Ardent vs Flagrant - What's the difference?
ardent | flagrant | Related terms |
Full of ardor; fervent, passionate.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43
* {{quote-book
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Burning; glowing; shining.
Obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous
* 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
(archaic) On fire, flaming.
Ardent is a related term of flagrant.
As adjectives the difference between ardent and flagrant
is that ardent is full of ardor; fervent, passionate while flagrant is obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous or flagrant can be (obsolete).ardent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
citation, passage=I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.}}
Anagrams
* ----flagrant
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Alternative forms
* flagraunt (qualifier)Etymology 1
From (etyl) flagrant, from (etyl) flagrantem, present participle of . More at (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- It is certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals we never entertain such an absurdity as that of passive obedience, but make allowances for resistance in the more flagrant instances of tyranny and oppression.
