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rank

20 6.8

Complete and clearly wrong

adjective
/ræŋk/

: flagrante

It's time for it rank worst as seen on TV products.

Your personality is glowing, rank and dire.

Examples

The city is rank with it.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Those guys are rank, Jen.

Jennifer's Body (2009)
So we consider this to be a rank one Killing tensor.
Your personality is glowing, rank and dire.

Zoe Sugg
That smell in the kitchen is just rank and makes it hard to eat.
His rank disregard for the rules created a chaotic work environment.
The movie received rank criticism for its poor writing and acting.

Synonyms

absolute

vsrank

496 3.9

Complete to show the highest degree

emphasizes an extreme negative and often stronger moral shock

sheer

vsrank

215 4.3

Showing a very large amount or degree

leans more to moral wrongness and flagrant badness rather than mere fullness

gross

vsrank

Formal

69 4.3

Very serious and obvious, showing a large fault or failure

focuses more on being utterly bad rather than merely obvious

egregious

vsrank

58 8.9

Very bad and obvious in a way that shocks people

is broader, stressing utter badness even without public shock

glaring

vsrank

38 4.3

Very obvious and wrong in a way that shocks people

focuses instead on total and extreme badness regardless of visibility

flagrant

vsrank

Formal

24 7.0

Obvious and very bad in a way that shocks people

is used for pure extreme badness, not only public outrage

out-and-out

vsrank

16 6.3

A complete and clear example of something, often a bad one

stresses extreme and flagrantly bad quality rather than mere totality

downright

vsrank

2 4.9

Completely bad or not acceptable, with no good quality

carries stronger sense of extreme badness rather than plain totality

Antonyms

moderate

310 3.3

Not very large or intense

mild

206 1.0

Something like pain and criticism that is not very strong or serious

Compounds

rank and file

37 4.3

Ordinary members of a group who are not leaders

higher rank

9 3.9

A position with more authority and status than others in a group

lower rank

6 3.5

A position lower than others in a group or at work

rank order

3 3.9

A list of people or things arranged from most to least important

military rank

3 3.2

A position in the armed forces that shows how much authority someone has

rank-smelling

1 7.1

Having a very strong, unpleasant smell like rotten food

social rank

1 3.8

A person's position in society based on wealth, family, or job

taxi rank

1 2.3

A place where taxis wait to pick up passengers

flag rank

Specialized

1 8.1

A senior military title that officers like admirals or generals hold

insignia of rank

1 5.5

A badge worn on a uniform that shows a person's military rank

Kendall rank correlation

Specialized

1 8.5

A number that shows how well two rankings agree

rank-order correlation

Specialized

1 8.8

A number that shows how similar two ordered lists are

Kendall partial rank correlation

Specialized

9.9

A method to measure the relationship between two ranked variables while keeping other variables the same

rank-difference correlation

Specialized

9.6

To measure how two sets of scores are related by comparing their ranks

rank-difference correlation coefficient

Specialized

9.9

A number that shows how closely two sets of ranked scores move together

rank-order correlation coefficient

Specialized

8.6

A number that shows how similar the order of items is in two lists

How Extreme

egregious

58 8.9

rank

20 6.8

severe

577 3.5

serious

∞ 2.0

noticeable

65 3.2

minor

497 2.4

Surface Forms

rank positive

ranks comparative

rankest superlative

Etymology

Rank meaning complete or extreme comes from the old sense of 'strong' or 'utter', so calling something a 'rank' wrong or 'rank' injustice says it is clearly and fully bad. That's why rank can add strong emphasis to a negative quality.