glaring

glaring
    adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding
           headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of
           sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: {blazing}, {blinding},
           {dazzling}, {fulgent}, {glaring}, {glary}]
    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" [syn: {crying(a)}, {egregious},
       {flagrant}, {glaring}, {gross}, {rank}]
    

Glaring \Glar"ing\, a.
   Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring
   crime. -- {Glar"ing*ly}, adv.
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Glare \Glare\ (gl[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glared}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Glaring}.] [OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. gl[ae]r
   amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, D. gloren to
   glimmer; prob. akin to E. glass.]
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   1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
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            The cavern glares with new-admitted light. --Dryden.
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   2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly,
      angrily, or fiercely.
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            And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. --Byron.
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   3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be
      ostentatiously splendid or gay.
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            She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
                                                  --Pope.
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139 Moby Thesaurus words for "glaring":
      absolute, arrant, atrocious, bedazzling, blatant, blazing,
      blinding, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, bright, bright and shining,
      brilliant, capital, cheap, chintzy, classical, clean-cut, clear,
      clear as crystal, clear-cut, coarse, colorful, complete,
      conspicuous, consummate, crass, crude, crystal-clear, dazzling,
      decided, defined, definite, definitive, disgraceful, distinct,
      downright, effulgent, egregious, evident, excessive, extravagant,
      extreme, flagitious, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring,
      flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glary, gorgeous,
      gross, hanging out, harsh, heinous, in focus, in relief,
      in the foreground, inordinate, intolerable, loud, lurid, manifest,
      meretricious, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious,
      ostensible, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, outstanding,
      overbright, overt, patent, perfect, plain, positive, precious,
      profound, prominent, pronounced, proper, rank, raw, refulgent,
      regular, resplendent, salient, scandalous, screaming, sensational,
      shameless, shattering, shocking, shrieking, spectacular, splendent,
      splendid, splendorous, staring, stark, stark-staring, sticking out,
      striking, strong, superlative, surpassing, tawdry, the veriest,
      thorough, thoroughgoing, tinsel, total, unbearable, unconcealed,
      unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unmistakable, unmitigated,
      unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, utter, visible, vivid, vulgar,
      well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved