Grievous vs Flagrant - What's the difference?
grievous | flagrant | Related terms |
Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
* 1883 ,
Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.
Obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous
* 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
(archaic) On fire, flaming.
Grievous is a related term of flagrant.
As adjectives the difference between grievous and flagrant
is that grievous is causing grief, pain or sorrow while flagrant is obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous or flagrant can be (obsolete).grievous
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Alternative forms
* greuous (obsolete) * grievious (less common outside dialects)Adjective
(en adjective)- As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed but not dangerous.
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* See alsoflagrant
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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.