egregious


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
egregious /ɪˈgriːdʒəs/
adjective
  • 1 outstandingly bad; shocking.
  • 2 archaic remarkably good.
– derivatives
egregiously adverb,
egregiousness noun.
– origin C16: from L. egregius ‘illustrious’, lit. ‘standing out from the flock’, from ex- ‘out’ + grex, greg- ‘flock’.
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