different between shameless vs flippant
shameless
English
Etymology
From Middle English shameles, shamelees, schameles, schomeles, schomeleas, from Old English s?aml?as, s?eaml?as (“without shame; shameless”), from Proto-Germanic *skamalausaz (“shameless”), equivalent to shame +? -less. Cognate with West Frisian skamteleas (“shameless”), Dutch schaamteloos (“shameless”), German schamlos (“shameless”), Danish skamløs (“shameless”), Swedish skamlös (“shameless”), Icelandic skammlaus (“shameless; unashamed”).
Adjective
shameless (comparative more shameless, superlative most shameless)
- Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something considered wrong; immodest; unable to feel disgrace.
Derived terms
- shamelessly
- shamelessness
Translations
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flippant
English
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.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /?fl?.p?nt/
Adjective
flippant (comparative more flippant, superlative most flippant)
- (archaic) glib; 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.
- November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason
- (chiefly dialectal) nimble; limber.
- Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- a sort of flippant, vain discourse
- 1998, Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant, at least.
- 2000, Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
- 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.
- 2004, Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, page 147
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cheeky
Antonyms
- serious
Derived terms
- flippancy
Translations
See also
- irreverent
- pert
- facetious
- frivolous
Further reading
- flippant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- flippant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fli.p??/
Adjective
flippant (feminine singular flippante, masculine plural flippants, feminine plural flippantes)
- (Europe, informal) Surprising.
- (Europe, informal) Worrying; scary.
Verb
flippant
- present participle of flipper
Further reading
- “flippant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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