GLARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glaring mean? 

• GLARING (adjective)
  The adjective GLARING has 2 senses:

1. shining intensely

2. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

  Familiarity information: GLARING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLARING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shining intensely

Synonyms:

blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary

Context example:

the glaring sun

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

Synonyms:

crying; egregious; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank

Context example:

rank treachery

Similar:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

 Context examples 

An instant later it was hurriedly replaced, and I caught a glimpse of a dark, beautiful, horrified face glaring at the narrow opening of the box-room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was glaring down the avenue, and his eyes followed mine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sunlight was too raw and glaring.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, I'm not a going to stand it, you know!” said the milkman, still throwing his voice into the house, and glaring down the passage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"This is really intolerable!" he cried, glaring across the platform.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went about the deck like a tiger cub, glaring his hatred openly at Wolf Larsen and Johansen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ryder stood glaring with a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The insolent villain!” cried Pedro, glaring furiously after him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the end of such a romp, when blow and cuff and snap and snarl were fast and furious, they would break off suddenly and stand several feet apart, glaring at each other.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)