Egregious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Egregious \E*gre"gious\ (?; 277), a. [L. egregius; lit.,
     separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished,
     excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd. See {Gregarious}.]
     Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); --
     formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now
     joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious


     rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake.
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           The egregious impudence of this fellow.  --Bp. Hall.
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           His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be
           neglected.                               --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  egregious
       adj : 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" [syn:
             {crying(a)}, {flagrant}, {glaring}, {gross}, {rank}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  194 Moby Thesaurus words for "egregious":
     a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absolute, all-embracing,
     all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, appalling, arrant,
     astonishing, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt,
     blameworthy, born, boundless, broad-based, brutal, capital,
     classical, clean, clear, complete, comprehensive, congenital,
     conspicuous, consummate, contemptible, crass, decided, deep-dyed,
     definitive, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting,
     downright, dreadful, dyed-in-the-wool, enormous, exaggerated,
     exceptional, excessive, exhaustive, exorbitant, extraordinary,
     extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fantastic, fetid, filthy,
     flagrant, formidable, foul, fulsome, gigantic, glaring, gluttonous,
     grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid,
     hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, incredible,
     infamous, inordinate, intemperate, intensive, intolerable,
     lamentable, loathsome, lousy, marked, marvelous, monstrous, nasty,
     nefarious, noisome, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious,
     obnoxious, odious, of mark, offensive, omnibus, omnipresent,
     out of bounds, out of sight, out-and-out, outrageous, outright,
     outstanding, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown,
     overlarge, overmuch, overweening, perfect, pervasive, pitiable,
     pitiful, plain, plumb, positive, precious, preposterous, profound,
     pronounced, proper, pure, radical, rank, regrettable, regular,
     remarkable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous,
     schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattering, sheer, shocking,
     shoddy, signal, sordid, squalid, stark, stark-staring, steep,
     stiff, straight, striking, superior, superlative, surpassing,
     sweeping, terrible, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
     through-and-through, too bad, too much, total, ubiquitous,
     unbearable, unbridled, unclean, uncommon, unconditional,
     unconscionable, undeniable, undue, unequivocal, universal,
     unmitigated, unqualified, unreasonable, unrelieved, unreserved,
     unrestrained, unrestricted, unspoiled, utter, veritable, vile,
     villainous, wholesale, woeful, wonderful, worst, worthless,
     wretched