Flaming vs Egregious - What's the difference?
flaming | egregious | Synonyms |
On fire with visible flames.
(colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
(British, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame
(internet slang) vitriolic criticism
Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
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Outrageously bad; shocking.
Flaming is a synonym of egregious.
As adjectives the difference between flaming and egregious
is that flaming is on fire with visible flames while egregious is exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.As a verb flaming
is .As a noun flaming
is sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.flaming
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
- To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.
- I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!
Verb
(head)See also
* flame war * flame baitNoun
(en noun)- You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.
egregious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
- My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
- When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious .
