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Definition: Glaringly |
GlaringlyAdverb1. In a glaring manner; "it was glaringly obvious". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glaringly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, gr/kat exochin/, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glaringly |
| English words defined with "glaringly": lurid ♦ shocking. (references) |
| "Glaringly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glaringly" is used about 39 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "glaringly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me verbim, me shkëlqim (brightly, glossy, lustrous, richly, shining, shiny, sleek). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو فاضحي, على نحو مبتذل (oddly, prosaically), على نحو غاضب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярко (clear), скандално, гневно (heatedly). (various references) | |
Czech | oslnivì (dazzlingly). (various references) | |
French | très flagrant, furieusement, avec flagrante. (various references) | |
German | grelles. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragyogóan (brightly, brilliantly, gorgeously). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aringlyglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vivamente (lively, poignantly, sharply), notoriamente (notoriously, openly, overtly, patently), manifestamente (apparently, avowedly, clean, clear, clearly, distinctly, overtly, plainly), evidentemente (apparently, clear, evidently, obviously, patently, sure), deslumbrantemente (flaring). (various references) | |
Russian | ярко (bedizen, brightly, gaily). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sevajući. (various references) | |
Spanish | deslumbrante (blinding, dazzling). (various references) | |
Swedish | skrikigt (loudly), bjärt (gaudy, glaring, loud). (various references) | |
Turkish | ışıl ışıl (ablaze, agleam, alight, ardent, brightly, brilliant, brilliantly, flaring, fresh, fulgurant, glaring, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сліпуче, визивно (acock). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sáng chói (bright, brilliant, dazzling, glaring, glary, irradiant, lucent, luminous, radiant), r nh r nh (blazing, downright, emphatic, flagrant, glaring, glary, tactile), hiển nhiên (apodeictic, apodictic, apodictical, apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, blatant, evident, flagrant, glaring, glary, incontrovertible, manifest, naked, notorious, obvious, patent, patently, self-apparent, self-evident, tactile, tangible, visibly, well-marked), chói lo rõ r ng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Glaringly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Guariglia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-l-l-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: gallying, grayling, ragingly, rallying. | |
-2 letters: allying, angrily, argling, galling, gingall, glaring, graying. | |
-3 letters: argyll, gainly, gangly, gingal, glairy, gnarly, grainy, gyring, laying, raging, raying. | |
-4 letters: aging, algin, align, angry, argil, gaily, gally, garni, gilly, girly, glair, glary, glial, gnarl, grail, grain, grill, gyral, inlay, liang, ligan, linga, lingy, lying, naggy, raggy, rainy, rally, rangy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-l-l-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: gallerying. | |
+3 letters: ballyragging, bullyragging. | |
+4 letters: laryngologies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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