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.

egregious — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
“a crying shame”
“an egregious lie”
“flagrant violation of human rights”
“a glaring error”
“gross ineptitude”
“gross injustice”
“rank treachery”
Synonymscrying flagrant glaring gross rank
Similarconspicuous

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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for egregious come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
“a crying shame”
“an egregious lie”
“flagrant violation of human rights”
“a glaring error”
“gross ineptitude”
“gross injustice”
“rank treachery”
Synonymscrying flagrant glaring gross rank
Similarconspicuous

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.

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