Dictionary

glaring en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

By surface analysis, glare + -ing.

Meanings

1. Reflecting with glare.
2. Blatant, obvious.
   • How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!
3. Garish
   • painted in glaring oranges and greens

Forms

Deriveds

glaringness · glaringly

Translations (42)

hu csillogó (reflecting with glare) · vo tulitik (reflecting with glare) · sv uppenbar (blatant, obvious) · de krass (blatant, obvious) · es garrafal (blatant, obvious) · es palmario (blatant, obvious) · no iøynefallende (blatant, obvious) · it ovvio (blatant, obvious) · ru вопию́щий (blatant, obvious) · fi räikeä (blatant, obvious) · de eklatant (blatant, obvious) · it palese (blatant, obvious) · de schreiend (blatant, obvious) · bg ярък (reflecting with glare) · sv bländande (reflecting with glare) · pt óbvio (blatant, obvious) · fr évident (blatant, obvious) · it lampante (blatant, obvious) · cmn 明顯的 /明显的 (blatant, obvious) · ja 目立つ (blatant, obvious) · ru очеви́дный (blatant, obvious) · ru я́вный (blatant, obvious) · it evidente (blatant, obvious) · cs do očí bijící (blatant, obvious) · cmn 明顯 /明显 (blatant, obvious) · izh häikävä (reflecting with glare) · bg ослепителен (reflecting with glare) · fi häikäisevä (reflecting with glare) · izh häikävälliin (reflecting with glare) · bg явен (blatant, obvious) · bg фрапантен (blatant, obvious) · ru ослепи́тельный (reflecting with glare) · pt reluzente (reflecting with glare) · es reluciente (reflecting with glare) · pt gritante (blatant, obvious) · fi silmiinpistävä (blatant, obvious) · ko 노골적인, 뻔한 (blatant, obvious) · ja 眩しい (reflecting with glare) · de hell strahlend (reflecting with glare) · cmn 閃耀的 /闪耀的 (reflecting with glare) · de grell leuchtend (reflecting with glare) · ru слепя́щий (reflecting with glare)

glaring en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

By surface analysis, glare + -ing.

Meanings

1. The act of giving a glare.
   • The young woman set a pot of coffee to boil, and things began to look more cheerful, when the old squaw was discovered sharpening an immense butcher-knife upon the stovepipe, with mutterings and glarings which evidently terrified her daughter, and threats in her own tongue against the intruders. 1904, Grace MacGowan Cooke, Alice MacGowan, Huldah, Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 122:
   • I take therefore even the lurid glarings, which barbarian passions must have cast on whatever was barbarians' general view of things, as predestined awakeners of real intellect to them. 1865, Sarah S. Hennell, Present Religion: as a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought:
   • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare! 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
2. (collective, rare) A group of cats.
   • 2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution” Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats. Sheldon: Clowder. Leonard: What? Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.
   • Paige often envisioned herself as an old woman, dying alone in her house, lying undiscovered until her glaring of cats had eaten her remains. 2016, Mary Cruz, The Ashes of Murderous Lies, AuthorHouse:
   • Quickly, a glaring of cats raced through the door. 2013, Sarah J. Pepper, Death of the Mad Hatter, page 3:
   • But as she knows, as Greville has come to accept, in a glaring of cats incidents considered 'dirty' to the human viewpoint are but an occurrence of nature to the feline. Sometimes it is caused by a skirmish for domination within the glaring, or territorial marking caused by an intruder, or as retribution against the human for the impertinence of dee-fleaing or deworming. 2014, K.D. Knight, Eight Cats at Number Twenty Seven:
   • Issobel's cat was willful -- sneaking into the smith's house in the middle of the night with a glaring of local cats, one of which the man believed was Isobel herself. 2023, Allyson Shaw, Ashes and Stones, Pegasus Books:

Forms

Hyponyms

kindle (group of cats)

Synonyms

clutter · clowder (group of cats) · clowder

glaring en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

By surface analysis, glare + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of glare
   form of glare