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)

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

* (William Shakespeare)

The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.

Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.

* Addison

There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

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Exorbitant.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

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Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

(Bancroft)