Blatant vs Blat - What's the difference?
blatant | blat |
Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
Obvious, on show.
* (Richard Henry Dana)
* (Edmund Spenser)
* (Washington Irving)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
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, title= To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat.
To make a senseless noise.
To talk inconsiderately.
To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).
As adjectives the difference between blatant and blat
is that blatant is bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly while blat is .blatant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Harsh and blatant tone.
- A monster, which the blatant beast men call.
- Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (obvious) furtiveSee also
* ostentatiousblat
English
Etymology 1
Imitative. First attested in 1846.Verb
(blatt)Anagrams
*Etymology 2
(etyl)Noun
(-)- To open a new business in Russia you need blat .