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Definition: Glaring |
GlaringAdjective1. Shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glaring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: GlaringSynonyms: blazing (adj), blinding (adj), crying(a) (adj), dazzling (adj), egregious (adj), flagrant (adj), fulgent (adj), glary (adj), gross (adj), rank (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Manifestation | Flagrant; notorious; (public); arrant; stark staring; unshaded, glaring. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glaring |
| English words defined with "glaring": blazing, blinding ♦ crying ♦ dazzling, diffused ♦ egregious ♦ flagrant, fulgent ♦ glaringly, glary, gross ♦ High-colored, howler ♦ rank ♦ softened. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glaring": de facto standard ♦ Kitten ♦ Saucer Eyes. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| "Cat Eye" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "My cat's glaring eye, if you look closely you can see my hand, my camera lens and my room in his eyeball's reflection." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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 | Hot rod; muscle car; engine; rev; revving; 8-cylinder; fast; drag racing; car racing; brash; brassy; brazen; chintzy; coarse; crass; crude; flamboyant; flashy; garish; gaudy; glaring; lurid; meretricious; obnoxious; obtrusive; ostentatious; raucous; rude. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
William Hazlitt | One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The midday sun burned through the hole and threw a glaring spot on the floor |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Fatigue, glaring or flickering lights, changes in the weather, and certain foods can set off migraine. (references) | |
Political Economy | SPAIN | One of the most glaring examples of these policies is the EU ban on imports of hormone-treated beef, imposed in 1989 with the stated objective of protecting consumer health. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Glaring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 78.03% of the time. "Glaring" is used about 305 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 78.03% | 238 | 19,410 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.64% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 305 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glaring": glaring injustice ♦ glaring red. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "glaring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | verbues (blinding, dazzling, meteoric), i shndritshëm (bright, brilliant, effulgent, glistening, lucent, lustrous, shiny), i ndezur (ablaze, aglow, alight, bright, flamboyant, flame, glazy, hectic, high-colored, high-coloured, live, lively, noisy, on fire, vivid). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاضح (disgraceful, egregious, flagrant, gross, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful), غاضب (angry, beside himself, cross, dandified, enraged, exasperating, furious, furred, grim, grumpy, indignant, irate, livid, narky, pink, revolting, stuffy, sullen, wrathful, wroth), ساطع (bright, dazzling, effulgent, incandescent, shining, splendid, spotless), زاه (bright, flashily, gay, glad, radiant, shining, vivid), باهي (bright, brilliant, flourishing, rich). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), скандален (flagrant, infamous, monstrous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shocking), явен (apparent, blazing, decided, declared, distinct, downright, evident, Frank, manifest, marked, noticeable, obvious, open, ostensible, outright, overt, palpable, patent, plain, Plumb, pointed, professed, pronounced, rank, self-explanatory, sheer, thumping, transparent, unconcealed, unmistakable, visible), фрапантен (viewy), шокиращ (jarring, stunning), кръвнишки, крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), гневен (irate, ireful, vicious, wrathful), ослепителен (blinding, dazzling, flaring, intense, vivid), очеваден (apparent, evil, outrageous, vicious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 怒视 (Glared). (various references) | |
Czech | prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), oslnivý (brilliant, dazzling, fascinating, radiant), oslepující (blinding, dazzling, garish), oslòující (glamorous, glamourous, stunning), nápadný (conspicuous, garish, gaudy, jazzy, loud, noticeable, ostentatious, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, showy, spectacular, sporty, striking), křiklavý (crude, flagrant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, loud, startling, vociferous), evidentní (evident, prima facie, self evident). (various references) | |
Finnish | räikeä (flagrant, garish, gaudy, gross, harsh), huutava (crying, flagrant). (various references) | |
French | furieux, flagrant, éclatant (glorious, glowing, glow-like), éblouissant. (various references) | |
German | grell (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, blazing, dazzling, flashy, garish, garishly, gaudily, gaudy, harsh, harshly, loud, loudly, lurid, luridly, penetratingly, piercing, raw, sharp, showy, shrill, strident, violent), anblitzend. (various references) | |
Greek | καταφωρόσ (flagrant), καταφανήσ (conspicuous, evident), που αγριοκοιτάζει, εκτυφλωτικόσ, εμφανής (apparent), αγριωπόσ, ολοφάνερος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזדקר לעין, מבהיק (glace), מסנור (blinding, dazzling, staring), בולט ביותר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vakító (blinding, dazzling), ragyogó (agleam, beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glistening, glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lurid, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, sunny, top-hole). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyilaukan (dazzle, flashy), mencolok (flashy, striking). (various references) | |
Italian | torvo (grim), madornale (enormous, gross, huge), macroscopico (gross, macroscopic, macroscopical), lampante (evident, scintillating), evidente (apparent, apparently, broad, clean-cut, conspicuous, evident, manifestly, naked, noticeable, obvious, open, overt, palpable, patent, plain, prominent, self evident), abbagliante (dazzling, garish). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 炯炯 , 爛爛たる (blazing, flaming), 爛爛 (fiery, flaming). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | らんらんたる (blazing, flaming), らんらん (fiery, flaming), けいけい. (various references) | |
Korean | 번쩍번쩍 빛남. (various references) | |
Manx | leayr (clear, clear-headed, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, graphic, obvious, perceivable, unequivocal), dallagh (dazzling, garish). (various references) | |
Norwegian | grell (gaudy), blendende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aringglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ofuscante, notório (arrant, celebrated, common, flagrant, notorious, open, overt, palpable, proverbial, public), flagrante (flagrant, gross), evidente (apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, clear, evident, luculent, marked, obvious, open, open-and-shut, overt, palpable, perspicacious, plain, tangible, transparent, unequivocal, unmistakable, visible), deslumbrante (flaring, glamorous, glamourous, gorgeous), brilhante (ablaze, agleam, bright, brilliant, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, gay, glowing, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, lustrous, orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid). (various references) | |
Romanian | grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), orbitor (dazzling, dazzlingly, flash), flagrant (crying, flagrant, gross), bãtãtor la ochi (banner, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, rampageous, self evident, staring, tinsel), bãtãtor (batler, batlet, beater, club, evident, gaudy, glowing, picker, striking), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, gaudy, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references) | |
Russian | яркий (bright, clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glowing, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, psychedelic, shiny, showy, sinewy, sunbright, vivid, zippy), слепящий, ослепительный (candescent, dazzling, flaring, flashy, garish), бросающийся в глаза (conspicuous, flashy, staring). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji seva, blistav (agleam, fulgent, glistening, glittering, luminous, resplendent, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent). (various references) | |
Spanish | muy evidente, deslumbrador, brillante (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glazy, glistening, glossy, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, scintillating, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling). (various references) | |
Swedish | gräll (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, garish, jazzy, loud, lurid, sharp), bländande (blinding), bjärt (gaudy, glaringly, loud). (various references) | |
Turkish | göze batan (annoying, flagrant, flamboyant, noisy, ostensible), göz kamaştırıcı (blinding, dazzling, doggy, flaring, glamorous, gorgeous, harsh, incandescent, resplendent), dik dik bakan (staring, unwinking), cırtlak (brassy, screaming, screeching, shrill), apaçık (as plain as a pikestaff, beyond dispute, clearly, conspicuous, crying, evident, evidential, evidentiary, evidently, gross, incontrovertible, manifest, obvious, obviously, openly, self evident, transparent, very clear, wide open, without dispute), çok parlak, ışıl ışıl (ablaze, agleam, alight, ardent, brightly, brilliant, brilliantly, flaring, fresh, fulgurant, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сліпучий (blinding, candescent, flaring, incandescent), визивний (defiant, flash). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sáng chói (bright, brilliant, dazzling, glaringly, glary, irradiant, lucent, luminous, radiant), rành rành (blazing, downright, emphatic, flagrant, glaringly, glary, tactile), loè loẹt trừng trừng giận dữ rõ ràng (glary), hiển nhiên (apodeictic, apodictic, apodictical, apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, blatant, evident, flagrant, glaringly, glary, incontrovertible, manifest, naked, notorious, obvious, patent, patently, self-apparent, self-evident, tactile, tangible, visibly, well-marked), chói loà hào phóng (glary). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glaring": glaringly, glaringness, glaringnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glaring": outglaring. (additional references) | |
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"Glaring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: garlin, garling, glain, glasing, glating, glavind, Guarino, laryng. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glaring" (pronounced gle"ring) |
| 5 | -l e" r i ng | blaring, declaring, flaring. |
| 4 | -e" r i ng | airing, baring, bearing, caring, chairing, comparing, daring, despairing, haring, herring, impairing, overbearing, pairing, paring, preparing, repairing, scaring, sharing, snaring, sparing, squaring, staring, swearing, tearing, uncaring, unsparing, Waring, wearing. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, alluring, aspiring, assuring, barring, bioengineering, boring, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, conspiring, curing, deploring, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flooring, gearing, Goring, hearing, hiring, ignoring, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overhearing, overpowering, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, restoring, retiring, roaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, shearing, shoring, smearing, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparring, Spearing, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, tarring, tiring, touring, underscoring, uninspiring, veering, volunteering, warring, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: argling. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: gingal, raging. | |
-2 letters: aging, algin, align, argil, garni, glair, gnarl, grail, grain, liang, ligan, linga. | |
-3 letters: agin, airn, anil, aril, gain, gang, giga, girl, girn, glia, gnar, gran, grig, grin, lain, lair, lang, lari, liar, ling, lira, nail, ragi, rail, rain, rang, rani, rial, ring. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, air, ani, gag, gal, gan, gar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: gangliar, ganglier, garbling, gargling, glairing, gnarling, grayling, lagering, ragingly, regaling. | |
+2 letters: draggling, enlarging, glaringly, grabbling, grappling, gratingly, graveling, graylings, laagering, reglazing, wrangling. | |
+3 letters: balbriggan, clangoring, draggingly, engrailing, gallerying, garlanding, glamouring, grapplings, graspingly, gravelling, leaguering, leveraging, ligaturing, outglaring, realigning, regelating, regulating, relegating, straggling, strangling. | |
+4 letters: balbriggans, bedraggling, beglamoring, clangouring, degradingly, embrangling, filagreeing, fulgurating, glamorising, glamorizing, glaringness, glengarries, granulating, gratulating, malingering, spurgalling, vulgarising, vulgarizing. | |
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