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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EGRE'GIOUS, a. [L. egregius, supposed to be from e or ex grege, from or out of or beyond the herd, select, choice.]
1. Eminent; remarkable; extraordinary; distinguished; as egregious exploits; an egregious prince. But in this sense it is seldom applied to persons.
2. In a bad sense, great; extraordinary; remarkable; enormous; as an egregious mistake; egregious contempt. In this sense it is often applied to persons; as an egregious rascal; an egregious murderer.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin egregius, from e- + greg-, grex herd — more at gregarious Date: circa 1534 1. archaic distinguished 2. conspicuous; especially conspicuously bad ; flagrant <egregious errors> <egregious padding of the evidence — Christopher Hitchens> • egregiously adverb • egregiousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 outstandingly bad; shocking (egregious folly; an egregious ass). 2 archaic or joc. remarkable. Derivatives: egregiously adv. egregiousness n. Etymology: L egregius illustrious, lit. 'standing out from the flock' f. grex gregis flock

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Egregious E*gre"gious (?; 277), a. [L. egregius; lit., separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd. See Gregarious.] Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. The egregious impudence of this fellow. --Bp. Hall. His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Egregious means very bad indeed. (FORMAL) ...the most egregious abuses of human rights. = grievous ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. [Usually in a bad sense.] Extraordinary, remarkable, enormous, monstrous, outrageous, great, huge, prodigious, tremendous.

Moby Thesaurus

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