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 Definitions for glaring: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Glaring \Glar"ing\, a.
Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring
crime. -- {Glar"ing*ly}, adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.]
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1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
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The cavern glares with new-admitted light. --Dryden.
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2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly,
angrily, or fiercely.
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And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. --Byron.
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3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be
ostentatiously splendid or gay.
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She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
--Pope.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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glaring
adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights";
"dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the
glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling,
fulgent, 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, gross, rank]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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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