adjective · rare

flippant

flippant · more flippant · most flippant

дерзкий, наглый, нахальный, неуважительный

frech, oberflächlich, leichtfertig, mit fehlender Ernsthaftigkeit

Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousnessShowing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

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/ˈflɪp.ənt/

» It was a flippant comment.

Meaning

3 senses

Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
schnodderig, vorlaut, frech
де́рзкийdérzkij, на́глыйnáglyj, наха́льныйnaxálʹnyj
showing inappropriate levity
(dialectal)Nimble; limber.
(archaic)Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity.
November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech.

Examples

5 sentences

It was a flippant comment.
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Tom made a flippant remark.
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Don't be flippant about this.
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His response was flippant.
Його відповідь була легковажна.
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Her flippant attitude won't get her hired.
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Translations

7 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

lacking respect:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

lacking respect:

Origin

1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present part

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.

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