glaring Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb look at with a fixed gaze
    glower; glare.
    • The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her
  2. verb be sharply reflected
    glare.
    • The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface
  3. verb shine intensely
    glare.
    • The sun glared down on us
  4. adjective satellite shining intensely
    blinding; dazzling; blazing; fulgent; glary.
    • the blazing sun
    • blinding headlights
    • dazzling snow
    • fulgent patterns of sunlight
    • the glaring sun
  5. adjective satellite conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
    gross; egregious; flagrant; rank; crying.
    • a crying shame
    • an egregious lie
    • flagrant violation of human rights
    • a glaring error
    • gross ineptitude
    • gross injustice
    • rank treachery

WordNet


Glar"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.

Webster 1913