Flagrant vs Savage - What's the difference?
flagrant | savage | Related terms |
Obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous
* 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
(archaic) On fire, flaming.
wild; not cultivated
* Dryden
barbaric; not civilized
* 1719-
* E. D. Griffin
fierce and ferocious
brutal, vicious or merciless
(UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair
(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
* 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251
(figuratively) A defiant person.
To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
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, title= (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
(obsolete) To make savage.
* South
Flagrant is a related term of savage.
As an adjective flagrant
is obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous or flagrant can be (obsolete).As a proper noun savage is
.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.
Synonyms
* (obvious and offensive) blatant, glaring * (on fire) burning, flamingEtymology 2
From (etyl)savage
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a savage wilderness
- savage berries of the wood
- savage manners
- I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
- What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
- savage beasts
- a savage spirit
- He gave the dog a savage kick.
- The woman was killed in a savage manner.
- - I'll see you in detention.
- Ah, savage !
Noun
(en noun)- 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
'They are not ' savages , Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
Verb
(transitive)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
- Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.