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Meaning of "flout" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLOUT

Perhaps from Middle English flouten to play the flute, from Old French flauter compare Dutch fluiten.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FLOUT

flout  [flaʊt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flout is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flout in English.

WHAT DOES FLOUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

flout

Insult

An insult is an expression, statement which is considered degrading, offensive and impolite. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word "inbred".

Definition of flout in the English dictionary

The definition of flout in the dictionary is when intr, usually foll by at to show contempt ; scoff or jeer.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLOUT

PRESENT

Present
I flout
you flout
he/she/it flouts
we flout
you flout
they flout
Present continuous
I am flouting
you are flouting
he/she/it is flouting
we are flouting
you are flouting
they are flouting
Present perfect
I have flouted
you have flouted
he/she/it has flouted
we have flouted
you have flouted
they have flouted
Present perfect continuous
I have been flouting
you have been flouting
he/she/it has been flouting
we have been flouting
you have been flouting
they have been flouting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I flouted
you flouted
he/she/it flouted
we flouted
you flouted
they flouted
Past continuous
I was flouting
you were flouting
he/she/it was flouting
we were flouting
you were flouting
they were flouting
Past perfect
I had flouted
you had flouted
he/she/it had flouted
we had flouted
you had flouted
they had flouted
Past perfect continuous
I had been flouting
you had been flouting
he/she/it had been flouting
we had been flouting
you had been flouting
they had been flouting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will flout
you will flout
he/she/it will flout
we will flout
you will flout
they will flout
Future continuous
I will be flouting
you will be flouting
he/she/it will be flouting
we will be flouting
you will be flouting
they will be flouting
Future perfect
I will have flouted
you will have flouted
he/she/it will have flouted
we will have flouted
you will have flouted
they will have flouted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been flouting
you will have been flouting
he/she/it will have been flouting
we will have been flouting
you will have been flouting
they will have been flouting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would flout
you would flout
he/she/it would flout
we would flout
you would flout
they would flout
Conditional continuous
I would be flouting
you would be flouting
he/she/it would be flouting
we would be flouting
you would be flouting
they would be flouting
Conditional perfect
I would have flout
you would have flout
he/she/it would have flout
we would have flout
you would have flout
they would have flout
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been flouting
you would have been flouting
he/she/it would have been flouting
we would have been flouting
you would have been flouting
they would have been flouting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you flout
we let´s flout
you flout
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to flout
Past participle
flouted
Present Participle
flouting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLOUT


ablaut
ˈæblaʊt
ach-laut
ˈæklaʊt
bailout
ˈbeɪlaʊt
breechclout
ˈbriːtʃˌklaʊt
clout
klaʊt
glout
ɡlaʊt
ich-laut
ˈɪçˌlaʊt
lout
laʊt
pull-out
ˈpʊlaʊt
roll-out
ˈrəʊlaʊt
umlaut
ˈʊmlaʊt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLOUT

flouncy
flounder
flour
flour bin
flour mill
flour mite
flour moth
flour shaker
flour sifter
flourish
flourisher
flourishing
flourishingly
flourishy
flourless
floury
flouse
flouter
floutingly
floutingstock

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLOUT

about
bout
check out
checkout
dishclout
fallout
find out
lager lout
layout
litter lout
log out
logout
Lycra lout
on the way out
out and about
sellout
talk about
throughout
tout
without

Synonyms and antonyms of flout in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FLOUT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flout» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of flout
defy · deride · insult · mock · outrage · ridicule · scorn · scout · spurn · taunt

Translation of «flout» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLOUT

Find out the translation of flout to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flout from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flout» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无视
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

burlarse de
570 millions of speakers

English

flout
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उपहास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تهزأ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

попирать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desrespeitar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিদ্রুপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

se moquer de
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merosakkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sich hinwegsetzen über
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

公然と破る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 어기다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngapusi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bất kể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

flout
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तिरकस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

takmamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contravvenire a
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lekceważyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зневажати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

haz
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιφρονούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ignoreer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flout
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gir blaffen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flout

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOUT»

The term «flout» is regularly used and occupies the 65.881 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOUT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «flout» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «flout» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flout

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QUOTES WITH «FLOUT»

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New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOUT»

Discover the use of flout in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flout and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
1079, 1100 n.18 (1986). flaunt; flout. Confusion of these terms is distressingly common. Flout means "to contravene or disregard; to treat with contempt." Flaunt means "to show off or parade (something) in an ostentatious manner," but is often  ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
To FLOUT, f o. a. [fluyten, Dutch ; flouwe, Frisick. This is the etymology given by Dr. Johnson. But the word is from the Saxon phcan, to quarrel, to □ scold, flout being, as Mr. H. Tooke says, the past part, of this verb. And it may be added that Jlit ...
Samuel Johnson, 1827
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I Unlocked My Subconscious Your Turn
Wikipedia.com Did Jesus flout social norms by attacking the money changers? Did Jesus flout social norms when he suggested, if someone hits you, do not hit them back? Did Jesus flout social norms when he suggested it is better to give ...
Todd Andrew Rohrer, 2009
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by ...
Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues - — Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune — I call'd thee then, vain flourish of my fortune — To this effect, sir ; after what flourish your nature will Flout. What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my ...
Samuel Ayscough, 1827
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Dramatic works with explanatory notes. A new ed., to which ...
What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face - Canudy of Emrx. - Dofl thou jeer and flout me in the teeth - - II-id. - Ere you flout old ends any further - - Mucbzsda.-16. Nolb. - That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave and llander - Ilzid. -- A college of ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, 1790
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by ...
I — That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander - Ibid. 5 —- A college of wit- crackers cannot flout me out of my humour - I bid. 5 ._ O, poverty in wit, lringly- poor flout - Love'.r Labour Lost. 5 -— Full of comparisons, and wounding flouts ...
Samuel Ayscough, 1827
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Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
Flout. What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face - Comedy oj Errors. •— Dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth - - Ibid. — Ere you flout old ends any further - - Much Ado Ab. Noth. — That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander - Ibid.
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, 1790
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Oxford A-Z of English Usage
flaunt. Flaunt and flout may sound similar but they have different meanings. Flaunt means 'to display ostentatiously', as in visitors who liked to flaunt their wealth, while flout means 'to openly disregard', as in new recruits growing their hair and ...
Jeremy Butterfield, 2013
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The Careful Writer
FLOUT seventy-two to five," the word is redundant since it means positively or plainly or in a manner to rule out argument — and the vote makes all this clear. On the other hand, if a case went to the Supreme Court, which threw it out in a ...
Theodore M. Bernstein, 1995
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Upland: A Simulation Model for Water Balance in Upland Soils
0 ) THEN IF (I.EQ.l) THEN FLOUT = MIN(10. ... I FLOUT R4 Flux out of soil compartment (mm d-1) I EVSWS R4 Actual evaporation rate soil compartment 1 ( m d-1) I TRWL R4 Array of actual transpiration rate/ layer (mm d-1) I WLST R4 Array ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flout is used in the context of the following news items.
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Anger at Ardoyne group's call to flout Parades Commission ruling …
DUP MLA William Humphrey has denounced as "grossly irresponsible" a call by Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc) to get more than ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
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China Bans Free Music Websites That Flout Copyright Laws
China Bans Free Music Websites That Flout Copyright Laws. BEIJING – The Chinese government banned internet companies who offer free music without ... «Latin American Herald Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Turnbull may flout PM's ban
Senior Liberal Malcolm Turnbull could be about to contradict the Prime Minister twice — on terrorism and anti-ABC sentiment. «The New Daily, Jul 15»
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MMDAs flout Model Standing Orders — Survey
Majority of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) do not fully comply with the Model Standing Orders (MSOs), the ... «Graphic Online, Jul 15»
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Guess which institution had the following to say about Israel's …
By Supporting Israel, Hillary Clinton and Congress Flout US Human Rights Law · US Politics & Gov't (tags: Americans, Israeli human rights ... «Care2.com, Jul 15»
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Schools flout orders norms of RTE
Saraikela: Though DC Chandrashekhar had asked education department officials to probe the alleged irrational fee hike made by the private ... «Avenue Mail, Jul 15»
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Prosecuting Paxton: Time for attorney general to face, not flout, the law
Opinion Blog. Prosecuting Paxton: Time for attorney general to face, not flout, the law. Tod Robberson / Editorial Writer Follow @trobberson ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
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Merkel, Renzi unite to tell Tsipras he can't flout euro rules
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Greece has to play by the euro area's rules if it wants aid, and ... «Kathimerini, Jul 15»
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Contractors blatantly flout PWD construction specifications
JOWAI: Pathetic condition of newly-constructed roads in Meghalaya is a common sight. That the PWD contractors in the State openly flout road ... «The Shillong Times, Jun 15»
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Texas AG tells clerks, judges they may be able to flout Supreme …
... in the Lone Star State their religious beliefs could enable them to flout the U.S. Supreme Court's historic ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, ... «mySanAntonio.com, Jun 15»

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