[responsivevoice]egregious[/responsivevoice] [ ih-gree-juh s ]
The word of the day is ‘egregious’.
Egregious is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Outstandingly bad
2. Outrageous
3. Shocking.
4. Horrific
1. “He deserved what he got, for his egregious vanity,” said Lyndsay.
2. And this error is so egregious that I am confounded at the universality with which it has been received.
3. It was the most egregious act the government has ever perpetrated.
4. This mistaken expectation was so egregious that it begged for some sort of explanation.
5. It is much more likely that I should be an egregious failure.
6. Here is another example on how to use egregiously in a sentence – the bowler bowled the last ball egregiously, thus costing us the match.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
atrocious, deplorable, extreme, flagrant, grievous, heinous, intolerable, nefarious, scandalous, arrant, monstrous, notorious, preposterous, stark, shocking, horrific, horrifying, horrible, terrible, awful, dreadful, ghastly, hideous, horrendous, frightful, abhorrent, nightmarish, heinous, harrowing, dire, blatant, unforgivable etc.
concealed, good, hidden, mild, little, minor, secondary, slight
Quotation using egregious:
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin
Social Example using egregious:
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