egregious
egregious is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. The egregious impudence of this fellow. Bp. Hall. His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- alogy
- anticlimax
- bathos
- blunder
- boutade
- bull
- contradictory
- delusion
- disorder
- escapade
- exaggeration
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fantastic
- farce
- farrago
- fool
- foolish
- fustian
- gibberish
- imbecility
- inconsistency
- inconsistent
- jargon
- macaronic
- meaning
- monkey
- moonshine
- muddle
- mummery
- name
- nest
- nonsense
- nonsensical
- nugacity
- paradox
- pish
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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