Definizione monolingua

egregious

egregious (comparative more egregious, superlative most egregious)

1. Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.

   The student has made egregious errors on the examination.

   • 16thC, Christopher Marlowe, Ignoto,

     I cannot cross my arms, or sigh ""Ah me,"" / ""Ah me forlorn!"" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, ""Thou art most debonnaire!""

   • c1605, William Shakespeare, Alls Well That Ends Well, Act 2, Scene 3,

     My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.

   • 2009, Sharon Eliza Nichols, I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups.
2. Outrageously bad.

Definizione dizionario egregious

egregio

straordinario

Altri significati:

Extraordinary in some bad way.

Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion

Outrageously bad.

Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.