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rank

rank

1 6.8
Complete and clearly wrong
  • adjective
  • /ræŋk/
translation icon : 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.

  • Those guys are rank, Jen.

  • So we consider this to be a rank one Killing tensor.

  • Your personality is glowing, rank and dire.

  • 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

sheer
vsrank
205 4.3

Showing a very large amount or degree

leans more to moral wrongness and flagrant badness rather than mere fullness
absolute
vsrank
204 3.9

Complete to show the highest degree

emphasizes an extreme negative and often stronger moral shock
gross
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  • Formal
65 4.3

Very serious and obvious, showing a large fault or failure

focuses more on being utterly bad rather than merely obvious
egregious
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58 8.9

Very bad and obvious in a way that shocks people

is broader, stressing utter badness even without public shock
flagrant
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  • Formal
24 7.0

Obvious and very bad in a way that shocks people

is used for pure extreme badness, not only public outrage
glaring
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12 4.3

Very obvious and wrong in a way that shocks people

focuses instead on total and extreme badness regardless of visibility
downright
vsrank
7 4.9

Completely bad or not acceptable, with no good quality

carries stronger sense of extreme badness rather than plain totality
out-and-out
vsrank
7 6.3

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

stresses extreme and flagrantly bad quality rather than mere totality

Antonyms

415 3.3

Not very large or intense

107 1.0

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

Compounds

34 4.3

Ordinary members of a group who are not leaders

6 3.9

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

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

1 3.5

A position lower than others in a group or at work

1 3.9

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

1 2.3

A place where taxis wait to pick up passengers

1 3.8

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

flag rank
  • Specialized
8.1

A senior military title that officers like admirals or generals hold

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

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

8.5

A number that shows how well two rankings agree

9.6

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

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

8.8

A number that shows how similar two ordered lists are

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

Having a very strong, unpleasant smell like rotten food

How Extreme

egregious
58 8.9
rank
1 6.8
severe
520 3.5
serious
2.0
noticeable
65 3.2
minor
600 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.