egregious

About 0.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Conspicuous, exceptional, outstanding; usually in a negative sense.

   The student has made egregious errors on the examination.

2. adjective Outrageously bad; shocking.

Similar words

flagrant gross rank crying obvious glaring conspicuous outrageous atrocity scandalous

Often followed by

error example folly errors and cases blunder examples violations

Word family

egregiously egregiousness egregiousnesses