eclatant

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adjective

Impressive, brilliant, striking, convincing.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveeclatant (comparative more eclatant, superlative most eclatant)

comparative more eclatant · superlative most eclatant

  1. rareImpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing.

    It is clear that what was once seen as an inconsistency, is actually an eclatant example of one of the most systemic characteristics of the system.

    2014, Marina Gržinić, Šefik Tatlić, “The Unending Transition”, in Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 254
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    Some operators differ with Dr. Pratt as to the technique of the operation, but this is a minor matter, so long as their operations are successful, but one fact is patent, the operation when made from proper indications is followed by the most eclatant results.

    1895 May, “Missouri Institute of Homœopathy, Bureau of Gynecology: Address by Dr. T. Griswold Comstock, Chairman”, in St. Louis Journal of Homœopathy and Clinical Reporter, volume 1, number 6, St. Louis, MO, page 178

Origin

  1. Frenchéclatant“bright, brilliant, dazzling”
  2. Englisheclatant

From French éclatant (“bright, brilliant, dazzling”), present participle of éclater (“to burst; to shine”).

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Translations

Czech eklatantní
  • eklatantníimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
Dutch eclatant
  • eclatantimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
French éclatant
  • éclatantimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
German eklatant
  • eklatantimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
Hungarian eklatáns
  • eklatánsimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
Italian eclatante
  • eclatanteimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
Norwegian Bokmål eklatant
  • eklatantimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
Romanian eclatant
  • eclatantimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
Swedish eklatant
  • eklatantimpressive, brilliant, striking, convincing
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