Glaring

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glaring \Glar"ing\, a.
     Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring
     crime. -- {Glar"ing*ly}, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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