glaring

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, glare +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ, -ɛɹɪŋ

Adjective

glaring (comparative more glaring, superlative most glaring)

1. Reflecting with glare.
2. Blatant, obvious.

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

Derived terms

• glaringly
• glaringness

Translations

reflecting with glare

• Bulgarian: ярък (bg) (jarǎk), ослепителен (bg) (oslepitelen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閃耀的／闪耀的 (zh) (shǎnyào de)

• Finnish: häikäisevä (fi)
• German: grell leuchtend (de), hell strahlend (de)
• Hungarian: csillogó (hu)
• Ingrian: häikävä, häikävälliin
• Japanese: 眩しい (ja) (mabushii)
• Portuguese: reluzente (pt)
• Russian: ослепи́тельный (ru) (oslepítelʹnyj), слепя́щий (ru) (slepjáščij)
• Spanish: reluciente (es)
• Swedish: bländande (sv)
• Volapük: tulitik

blatant, obvious

• Bulgarian: явен (bg) (javen), фрапантен (bg) (frapanten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 明顯／明显 (zh) (míngxiǎn), 明顯的／明显的 (míngxiǎn de)

• Czech: do očí bijící (cs)
• Finnish: silmiinpistävä (fi), räikeä (fi)
• French: évident (fr)
• German: krass (de), schreiend (de), eklatant (de)
• Italian: palese (it), ovvio (it), evidente (it), lampante (it)
• Japanese: 目立つ (ja) (medatsu)
• Korean: 노골적인, 뻔한 (nogoljeogin, ppeonhan)
• Norwegian: iøynefallende (no)
• Portuguese: óbvio (pt), gritante
• Russian: вопию́щий (ru) (vopijúščij) (crying, outrageous), очеви́дный (ru) (očevídnyj) (obvious), я́вный (ru) (jávnyj) (obvious)
• Spanish: evidente (es), obvio (es), garrafal (es), flagrante (es), palmario (es)
• Swedish: uppenbar (sv)

Verb

glaring

1. present participle and gerund of glare

Noun

glaring (plural glarings)

1. The act of giving a glare.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

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

2. (rare) 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.

Synonyms

• (group of cats): clowder

Hyponyms

• (group of cats): kindle (group of kittens)

Anagrams

• Garling, glargin