Meaning

(obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
2. Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
3. (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
4. (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
5. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
6. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
7. (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
8. (card games) The value of a playing card.

Example Sentences

Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?

Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.

rank treason

rank nonsense

I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.

England's domination of the first half was almost total, but they somehow contrived to allow Tunisia to raise themselves off the floor by virtue of rank carelessness from [Gareth] Southgate's side.

Chelsea remain rank outsiders to retain their crown and they still lie 12 points adrift of United, but Ancelotti will regard this as a performance that supports his insistence that they can still have a say when the major prizes are handed out this season.

the ewes being rank, In end of autumn turned to the rams

Word Forms

• ranker
• more rank
• rankest
• most rank
• ranck
• ranks
• ranking
• ranked

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When Should You Use Rank?

Use rank when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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