BLATANTLY Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

blatantly

adverb

Definition of blatantly

as in clearly

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Recent Examples of blatantly In three tracks—two tentpoles separated by an ambient interlude—the EP blatantly evokes a period in the mid-’90s when, across Europe, guys in corpse paint started playing around with Korg workstations. — Patrick Lyons, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026 The effect dissipates somewhat whenever Cahyono resorts to less suggestive, more blatantly surreal imagery. — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026 Two years earlier, Republicans had swept the state, then passed a blatantly gerrymandered map. — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026 After Texas opened the floodgates of blatantly political midterm redistricting, other states followed suit. — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2026 Portnoy being blatantly discriminated against for being Jewish was very real. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 His ability to fund campaigns for far-right and/or blatantly authoritarian political parties has gone from financially motivated to straight-up sinister. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026 Diamondbacks pitcher Eduardo Rodríguez blatantly balked in front of a crowd of 24,297, and the only four people who could fix it didn’t see it until watching a video afterward. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026 The other was filed by Bonta, who said that Bianco blatantly disregarded his authority as attorney general. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Problems emerge when those distinctive flavors don’t incorporate into the overall mix or too clearly smack of other artists’ sauce.

— Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2026
The key is helping prospective employers clearly see how those strengths translate to their current needs.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of clearly

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For many years, the EPP staunchly supported former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s stridently nationalist Fidesz party, hoping to keep him within Europe’s political mainstream.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
DeSantis stridently opposed both measures, which failed to get the 60% support needed to pass.

— Gray Rohrer, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of stridently

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In a defining game that many thought would expose problems masked by UCLA’s early-season success, the Bruins — though imperfect — vociferously announced their arrival to the college football world as legitimate playoff contenders.

— Elias Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Earlier this month, Cruz vociferously rejected the idea that artificial intelligence companies should be granted antitrust exemptions in order to collaborate on ways to implement industry-wide AI safety guardrails.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of vociferously

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Construction has been underway for about three weeks, and according to the partners, an opening date has been set for early April for the two distinctly different restaurants at the building.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Work that strips human beings of dignity is often work that no longer requires distinctly human qualities at all.

— Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of distinctly

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Before the meeting started, an attendee asked a DEC employee by the sign-in table about the large industrial fans built into the gym’s walls, which were whirring noisily.

— Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026
Contemporary foes like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and North Korea’s Kim Jong-il remained firmly, if sometimes noisily, contained.

— Michael E. Neagle, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of noisily

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So Zohran Mamdani deserves at least tentative kudos for taking it on so early in his administration and for offering a solution that, while resoundingly imperfect, at least seems grounded in the real world.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Aug. 2026
Progressive challengers Elijah Manley and Oliver Larkin failed resoundingly.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of resoundingly

Adverb

Writing for Apartment Therapy, Noella Williams put the case plainly.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Yann LeCun, the Turing laureate who ran Meta’s AI research for a decade before leaving in November 2025 to found Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, has been saying it plainly since 2023.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

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