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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. shining intensely;
- Example: "the blazing sun"
- Example: "blinding headlights"
- Example: "dazzling snow"
- Example: "fulgent patterns of sunlight"
- Example: "the glaring sun"
[syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]

2. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;
- Example: "a crying shame"
- Example: "an egregious lie"
- Example: "flagrant violation of human rights"
- Example: "a glaring error"
- Example: "gross ineptitude"
- Example: "gross injustice"
- Example: "rank treachery"
[syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glaring \Glar"ing\, a.
   Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring
   crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]