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glaringly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋli/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋlɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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• /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋli/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English glaring Middle English -ly English -ly English glaringly From glaring + -ly.

Meanings

1. (literally) In a glaring manner: ▸ With intense light.
   • After dusk in Bedford Square you could see into the high first-floor windows of publishers’ offices, the walls of bookshelves and often a huddle of figures at a glaringly lit party. 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, London: Picador, Part Four, Chapter 1:
   • […] the light now on, now off, now on too glaringly, now too dimly, with the glow of a fitful dying battery—then at last to know the whole town plunged into darkness […] 1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 5, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:
   • The ground was covered with snow, glaringly white even under that pinpoint Sun. 1958, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 7, in Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Ballantine, published 1977, page 114:
2. (figuratively) In a glaring manner: ▸ So as to be highly visible or obvious; so as to attract notice or attention.
   • ‘How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?’ I called from the inside. 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 22, in Wuthering Heights:
   • The error was glaringly obvious, yet nobody said anything about it.
   • To find the reporters hammering at their doors, so to speak, and fended off only for a time by a proposal that they should call again; to see their incredible secret glaringly in print, did indeed for a moment seem a hopeless exposure to both the Buntings and the Sea Lady. 1901, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady, London: Methuen, published 1902, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 72:
   • Her accent is glaringly Kaaps; 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, page 24:
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 9, p. 133, Cecilia was quite confounded by this speech; to have it known that Delvile had visited her, was in itself alarming, but to have her own equivocation thus glaringly exposed, was infinitely more dangerous.

Forms

Synonyms

blatantly (so as to be highly obvious) · plainly

Translations (5)

bg ярко (in a glaring manner) · oc visiblament (in a glaring manner) · it palesemente (in a glaring manner) · oc clarament (in a glaring manner) · oc intensament (in a glaring manner)