glaring

adjective

1. shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
2. very conspicuous or obvious; flagrant: several glaring errors in spelling.
3. staring in a fiercely or angrily piercing manner.
4. excessively showy or bright; garish.

noun

1. a very harsh, bright, dazzling light: in the glare of sunlight.
2. a fiercely or angrily piercing stare.
3. dazzling or showy appearance; showiness.

verb (used without object), glared, glar·ing.

4. to shine with or reflect a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
5. to stare with a fiercely or angrily piercing look.
6. Archaic. to appear conspicuous; stand out obtrusively.

verb (used with object), glared, glar·ing.

7. to express with a glare: They glared their anger at each other.

adjective

1. conspicuousa glaring omission
2. dazzling or garish

verb

1. (intr) to stare angrily; glower
2. (tr) to express by glowering
3. (intr) (of light, colour, etc) to be very bright and intense
4. (intr) to be dazzlingly ornamented or garish

noun

5. an angry stare
6. a dazzling light or brilliance
7. garish ornamentation or appearance; gaudiness

adjective

1. mainly US and Canadian smooth and glassyglare ice

adj.

late 14c., from present participle of glare. Meaning “obtrusively conspicuous” is from 1706.

v.

late 13c., “shine brightly,” from or related to Middle Dutch, Middle Low German glaren “to gleam,” related by rhoticization to glas (see glass). Sense of “stare fiercely” is from late 14c. The noun is c.1400 in sense “bright light;” 1660s in sense of “fierce look.” Old English glær (n.) meant “amber.” Related: Glared; glaring.