"flippant" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈflɪ.pənt/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flippant.wav Forms: more flippant [comparative], most flippant [superlative]
Etymology: 1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present participle of flip (“to babble”), of North Germanic origin. Cognate with Icelandic fleipa (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal flepa (“to talk nonsense”). Alteration of -and suffix (a variant of the participial -ing) to -ant probably due to influence from words in -ant. Etymology templates: {{der|en|gmq|-}} North Germanic, {{cog|is|fleipa||to babble, prattle}} Icelandic fleipa (“to babble, prattle”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} flippant (comparative more flippant, superlative most flippant)
  1. Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert. Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-flippant-en-adj-2wU8WwVS Disambiguation of Personality: 58 36 6
  2. (archaic) Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-flippant-en-adj-lUpNIfGB
  3. (chiefly dialectal) Nimble; limber. Tags: dialectal
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: flippancy Related terms: irreverent, pert, facetious, frivolous Translations (lacking respect): непочтителен (nepočtitelen) (Bulgarian), 輕率 /轻率 (qīngshuài) (Chinese Mandarin), 無禮 /无礼 (wúlǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), neomalený (Czech), lehkovážný (Czech), oneerbiedig (Dutch), spottend (Dutch), impertinenta (Esperanto), epäkunnioittava (english: lacking respect) (Finnish), epäasiallinen (english: lacking seriousness) (Finnish), désinvolte (French), cavalier (French), schnodderig (German), vorlaut (German), frech (German), oberflächlich (German), leichtfertig (German), mit fehlender Ernsthaftigkeit (German), pimasz (Hungarian), nyegle (Hungarian), pikírt (Hungarian), pökhendi (Hungarian), virðingarlaus [masculine] (Icelandic), impertinente (Italian), disinvolto (Italian), faceto (Italian), frivolo (Italian), irriverente (Italian), sapientone [masculine] (Italian), fanfarone [masculine] (Italian), spaccone [masculine] (Italian), gradasso [masculine] (Italian), ぶしつけな (bushitsuke-na) (Japanese), 生意気な (namaiki-na) (alt: なまいきな) (Japanese), др́зок (dŕzok) (Macedonian), несерио́зен (neseriózen) (Macedonian), на́хален (náhalen) (Macedonian), за́качлив (zákačliv) (Macedonian), ngahangaha (Maori), eplekjekk (Norwegian), flåset (Norwegian), flåsete (Norwegian), insolente (Portuguese), impertinente (Portuguese), де́рзкий (dérzkij) (Russian), на́глый (náglyj) (Russian), наха́льный (naxálʹnyj) (Russian), неуважительный (neuvažitelʹnyj) (Russian), fresco (Spanish), insolente (Spanish), oseriös (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'lacking respect': 44 12 44
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "neomalený"
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "english": "lacking respect",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "epäkunnioittava"
    },
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      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "lacking seriousness",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "epäasiallinen"
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      "word": "désinvolte"
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "cavalier"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "schnodderig"
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      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "vorlaut"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "frech"
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      "word": "oberflächlich"
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      "word": "leichtfertig"
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "mit fehlender Ernsthaftigkeit"
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "word": "spaccone"
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      "word": "gradasso"
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      "alt": "なまいきな",
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      "roman": "neseriózen",
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      "roman": "zákačliv",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
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      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "eplekjekk"
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "flåset"
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      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "flåsete"
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    {
      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "insolente"
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    {
      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "impertinente"
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    {
      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "dérzkij",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "де́рзкий"
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    {
      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
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      "roman": "náglyj",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "на́глый"
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      "roman": "naxálʹnyj",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "наха́льный"
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      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "fresco"
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    {
      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "insolente"
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      "_dis1": "44 12 44",
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
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}
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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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        "comparative"
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      "word": "pert"
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      "word": "facetious"
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          "ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "a sort of flippant, vain discourse",
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          "ref": "1998, Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch:",
          "text": "The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Anthony Howard, Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000:",
          "text": "In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, page 147:",
          "text": "Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert."
      ],
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          "seriousness",
          "seriousness"
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          "pert",
          "pert"
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        {
          "text": "November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason\nIt becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity."
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          "speak"
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        "(archaic) Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity."
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      ]
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      "categories": [
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      "glosses": [
        "Nimble; limber."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "nimble#English"
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          "limber",
          "limber"
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        "(chiefly dialectal) Nimble; limber."
      ],
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      "tags": [
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        "US"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nepočtitelen",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "непочтителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qīngshuài",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "輕率 /轻率"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wúlǐ",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "無禮 /无礼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "neomalený"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "lehkovážný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "oneerbiedig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "spottend"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "impertinenta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "lacking respect",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "epäkunnioittava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "lacking seriousness",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "epäasiallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "désinvolte"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "cavalier"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "schnodderig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "vorlaut"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "frech"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "oberflächlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "leichtfertig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "mit fehlender Ernsthaftigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "pimasz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "nyegle"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "pikírt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "pökhendi"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "virðingarlaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "impertinente"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "disinvolto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "faceto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "frivolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "irriverente"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sapientone"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fanfarone"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spaccone"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gradasso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bushitsuke-na",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "ぶしつけな"
    },
    {
      "alt": "なまいきな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "namaiki-na",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "生意気な"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "dŕzok",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "др́зок"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "neseriózen",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "несерио́зен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "náhalen",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "на́хален"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zákačliv",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "за́качлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "ngahangaha"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "eplekjekk"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "flåset"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "flåsete"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "insolente"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "impertinente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dérzkij",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "де́рзкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "náglyj",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "на́глый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naxálʹnyj",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "наха́льный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neuvažitelʹnyj",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "неуважительный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "fresco"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "insolente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lacking respect",
      "word": "oseriös"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flippant"
}

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