eclatant

From French éclatant (“bright, brilliant, dazzling”), present participle of éclater (“to burst; to shine”).

eclatant (comparative more eclatant, superlative most eclatant)

1. (rare) Impressive, brilliant, striking, convincing.
   • 1895 May, “Missouri Institute of Homœopathy, Bureau of Gynecology: Address by Dr. T. Griswold Comstock, Chairman”, in St. Louis Journal of Homœopathy and Clinical Reporter, volume 1, number 6, St. Louis, MO, page 178:

     Some operators differ with Dr. Pratt as to the technique of the operation, but this is a minor matter, so long as their operations are successful, but one fact is patent, the operation when made from proper indications is followed by the most eclatant results.

   • 2014, Marina Gržinić, Šefik Tatlić, “The Unending Transition”, in Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 254:

     It is clear that what was once seen as an inconsistency, is actually an eclatant example of one of the most systemic characteristics of the system.

Borrowed from French éclatant.

• IPA^(key): /eː.klaːˈtɑnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑnt

eclatant (comparative eclatanter, superlative eclatantst)

1. eclatant (striking, dazzling)

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “eclatant”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Borrowed from French éclatant.

eclatant m or n (feminine singular eclatantă, masculine plural eclatanți, feminine and neuter plural eclatante)

1. dazzling