GLARING DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
glaring 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(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) glaring 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 English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary glaring 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 English Explanatory Dictionary glaring ˈɡlɛərɪŋ adj. 1 obvious, conspicuous (a glaring error). 2 shining oppressively. 3 staring fiercely. øøglaringly adv. glaringness n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Glaring \Glar"ing\, a. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms glaring a. 1. Dazzling, glittering. 2. Barefaced, notorious, conspicuous, open, manifest, extreme. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) glaring ˈɡlɛərɪŋ adj. 1 blatant, flagrant, egregious, conspicuous, obtrusive, prominent, evident, obvious, manifest, patent, overt, clear, visible, unconcealed, outrageous, gross, flagitious, atrocious, heinous, shameless, disgraceful, shocking, scandalous: They pointed out a glaring omission in the proposals. 2 garish, dazzling, brilliant, blinding, blazing, vivid, harsh, strong: I was blinded when we first walked out into the glaring sunlight. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 139 Moby Thesaurus words for "glaring": absolute, arrant, atrocious, bedazzling, blatant, blazing, blinding, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, capital, cheap, chintzy, classical, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, coarse, colorful, complete, conspicuous, consummate, crass, crude, crystal-clear, dazzling, decided, defined, definite, definitive, disgraceful, distinct, downright, effulgent, egregious, evident, excessive, extravagant, extreme, flagitious, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glary, gorgeous, gross, hanging out, harsh, heinous, in focus, in relief, in the foreground, inordinate, intolerable, loud, lurid, manifest, meretricious, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious, ostensible, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, outstanding, overbright, overt, patent, perfect, plain, positive, precious, profound, prominent, pronounced, proper, rank, raw, refulgent, regular, resplendent, salient, scandalous, screaming, sensational, shameless, shattering, shocking, shrieking, spectacular, splendent, splendid, splendorous, staring, stark, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, strong, superlative, surpassing, tawdry, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, tinsel, total, unbearable, unconcealed, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, utter, visible, vivid, vulgar, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved |
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