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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GLA'RING, ppr. Emitting a clear and brilliant light; shining with dazzling luster.
1. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as a glaring crime.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger 2. a. shining with or reflecting an uncomfortably bright light b. (1) garish (2) vulgarly ostentatious 3. obtrusively and often painfully obvious <a glaring error> Synonyms: see flagrant • glaringly adverb • glaringness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 obvious, conspicuous (a glaring error). 2 shining oppressively. 3 staring fiercely. Derivatives: glaringly adv. glaringness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glare Glare (gl[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glared; p. pr. & vb. n. Glaring.] [OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. gl[ae]r amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, D. gloren to glimmer; prob. akin to E. glass.] 1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. --Dryden. 2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. --Byron. 3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. --Pope.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glaring Glar"ing, a. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something bad as glaring, you are emphasizing that it is very obvious and easily seen or noticed. I never saw such a glaring example of misrepresentation. = blatant ADJ: usu ADJ n [emphasis] • glaringly It was glaringly obvious... He told a glaringly different story. ADV see also glare

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Dazzling, glittering. 2. Barefaced, notorious, conspicuous, open, manifest, extreme.

Moby Thesaurus

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