List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 166

SYNONYMS: flagrant, glaring, gross, egregious, rank.
These adjectives refer to what is conspicuously bad or offensive.

Flagrant applies to what is so offensive that it cannot escape notice: in flagrant disregard of the law.
What is glaring is blatantly and painfully manifest: a glaring error; glaring contradictions.
Gross suggests a magnitude of offense or failing that cannot be condoned or forgiven: gross ineptitude; gross injustice.
What is egregious is outrageously bad: an egregious lie.
Rank implies that the term it qualifies is as indicated to an extreme, violent, or gross degree: rank stupidity.