English

Adjective

blatant ‎(comparative more blatant, superlative most blatant)

1. Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
2. 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.

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:obvious
• See also Wikisaurus:gaudy

Antonyms

• (obvious): furtive

Translations

See also

• ostentatious