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Definition of rank adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rank

adjective
 
/ræŋk/
 
/ræŋk/
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  1. having a strong unpleasant smell
    • The house was full of the rank smell of urine.
  2. (informal) very unpleasant
    • I think the whole situation's pretty rank.
  3. [only before noun] used to emphasize a particular quality, state, etc.
    • an example of rank stupidity/hypocrisy
    • The winning horse was a rank outsider.
    • She made the other players look like rank amateurs.
  4. (of plants, etc.) growing too thickly
    • an area overgrown with rank grass and nettles
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