egregious

Questions about egregious

What does egregious mean?

egregious means "conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible".

How many syllables are in egregious?

egregious has 3 syllables: e-gre-gious. The stress falls on "gre". In IPA it is /ɪˈɡɹidʒəs/.

What is another word for egregious?

Close synonyms include crying, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is egregious a common word?

egregious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.