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Blatant vs Blat - What's the difference?

blatant | blat |

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)
  • Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
  • Obvious, on show.
  • * (Richard Henry Dana)
  • Harsh and blatant tone.
  • * (Edmund Spenser)
  • A monster, which the blatant beast men call.
  • * (Washington Irving)
  • Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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 also

    Antonyms

    * (obvious) furtive

    See also

    * ostentatious

    blat

    English

    Etymology 1

    Imitative. First attested in 1846.

    Verb

    (blatt)
  • 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.
  • Anagrams

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    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).
  • To open a new business in Russia you need blat .
    Synonyms
    * guanxi (from Chinese) ----