egregious

[ ih-gree-juhs, -jee-uhs ]

adjective

1. extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant:

   an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.

   Synonyms: shocking, notorious, outrageous, gross

   Antonyms: unnoticeable, minor, moderate, tolerable

2. Archaic. distinguished or eminent.

egregious

/ -dʒɪəs; ɪˈɡriːdʒəs /

adjective

1. outstandingly bad; flagrant

   an egregious lie

2. archaic.
   distinguished; eminent

Derived Forms

• eˈgregiously, adverb
• eˈgregiousness, noun

Other Words From

• e·gregious·ly adverb
• e·gregious·ness noun
• none·gregious adjective
• none·gregious·ly adverb
• none·gregious·ness noun
• une·gregious adjective
• une·gregious·ly adverb
• une·gregious·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of egregious¹

First recorded in 1525–35; from Latin ēgregius “preeminent, outstanding,” equivalent to ē- + greg-, stem of grēx “flock” + -ius adjective suffix; e- ¹, -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of egregious¹

C16: from Latin ēgregius outstanding (literally: standing out from the herd), from ē- out + grex flock, herd

Example Sentences

After years of activists’ efforts to alert lawmakers to these egregious legal gaps, deepfakes are finally forcing them to pay attention.

From MIT Technology Review

What is potentially most egregious about Williams’s diminished performance in the category of return points won is the caliber of servers she’s letting slide.

From FiveThirtyEight

Just because there’s a comparatively small chance your site has egregious on-site issues, doesn’t mean your competition isn’t continuing to build out their site, both on- and offsite.

From Search Engine Watch

“This is an egregious action at a time when households and small businesses across the country need high-speed, reliable broadband more than ever but are struggling to make ends meet,” Pallone, McNerney and Doyle wrote in their letters.

From Washington Post

I’d say the game was about Jackson, the Baltimore defense and an absolutely egregious punt by Vrabel on fourth-and-2, down 5 with 10 minutes remaining.

From FiveThirtyEight

Perhaps one of the most egregious examples is the abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws.

From The Daily Beast

They are both complicit in this, though my mother is the more egregious offender.

From The Daily Beast

Here are just a few of the most egregious uses of lethal force by Chicago police.

From The Daily Beast

The most egregious uses of lethal force have been borne by people with intellectual disabilities and children.

From The Daily Beast

To call Wild an emotional film would be an egregious disservice to its astounding journey to screen.

From The Daily Beast

So far, so good; but, in another quarter, Allcraft suddenly discovered that he had committed an egregious blunder.

From Project Gutenberg

Fust I knew them geysers begun for to groan egregious like, an' I seen the caribou gallopin' hell-bent south.

From Project Gutenberg

"That young man is a most egregious ass," said Mr Whittlestaff.

From Project Gutenberg

Here was a house that gratified his sensuous nature through and through, and appealed irresistibly to his egregious vanity.

From Project Gutenberg

That the general question of property is at all affected by the obliteration of this interest, is an egregious error.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• atrocious
• deplorable
• extreme
• flagrant
• glaring
• grievous
• heinous
• intolerable
• nefarious
• scandalous
• shocking