Stark vs Flagrant - What's the difference?
stark | flagrant |
(obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
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(rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Stiff, rigid.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
Complete, absolute, full.
* Ben Jonson
* Collier
* Selden
starkly; entirely, absolutely
* Fuller
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* 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
(archaic) On fire, flaming.
As a proper noun stark
is .As an adjective flagrant is
obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous or flagrant can be (obsolete).stark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stark, starc, from (etyl) stearc, . Related to (l). Modifying naked , an alternation of original .Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest . It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- a stark , moss-trooping Scot
- Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
- Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark .
- Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff / Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
- The north is not so stark and cold.
- I picked my way forlornly through the stark , sharp rocks.
- I screamed in stark terror.
- A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
- Consider the stark security / The common wealth is in now.
- He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
- Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
Derived terms
* (l)Adverb
(-)- He's gone stark , staring mad.
- She was just standing there, stark naked.
- held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
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Usage notes
In standard modern English, the adverb is essentially restricted to stark naked'' and phrases meaning "crazy" on the pattern of ''stark raving mad .Etymology 2
From (etyl) starken, from (etyl) .Anagrams
* * ----flagrant
English
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.