glaring — ozdic

Collocations

5

ADJ.

hurtful, light, missing, right, still, vast

VERB + GLARING

continued, eyes, kept, miss, noticed, overlook, result, sat

GLARING + NOUN

daggers, doctors, error, headlights, it's, mary, oversight, rima

PREP.

across, in, in

ADV.

menacingly, such

Definitions

adj

1

Reflecting with glare.

2

Blatant, obvious.

How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

noun

1

The act of giving a glare.

Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

2

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — shining intensely

adjective — conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

Wiktionary

02

Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

Wiktionary

03

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: Clow

Wiktionary

04

The glaring headlights dazzled us for a moment.

Tatoeba · #33961

05

The glaring light is hurtful to the eyes.

Tatoeba · #50200

06

The hospital has been sued as a result of a glaring oversight when doctors failed to notice a large tumour in a woman's X-ray.

Tatoeba · #3674714

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, glaring is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.