glaring
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
glaring
- Reflecting with glare.
- Blatant, obvious.
- How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!
- German: grell leuchtend, hell strahlend
- Portuguese: reluzente
- Russian: ослепи́тельный
- Spanish: reluciente
- French: évident
- German: krass, schreiend, eklatant
- Italian: palese, ovvio, evidente, lampante
- Portuguese: óbvio
- Russian: вопию́щий
- Spanish: evidente, obvio, garrafal
- present participle of glare#English|glare
glaring (plural glarings)
- The act of giving a glare.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- (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.
- 2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution ↗”
- (group of cats) clowder
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