egregious
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General adjective
Outstandingly bad; shocking in its wrongness.
The report catalogued egregious abuses that had gone unpunished for years.
Law adjective
Outstandingly bad or shocking in degree.
The hospital's egregious lapses in hygiene amounted to gross negligence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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